Github link: https://github.com/Dakkaron/Fairberry
Here’s a video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDb8_ld9gOQ
I’ve been using it for almost two years now, and I’m not going back.
It’s based on a spare Blackberry Q10 keyboard and a custom Arduino-compatible board that reads the keyboard matrix and outputs it as USB HID to the phone. From the viewpoint of the phone, it’s just a regular USB keyboard, so no special software is needed.
But I do use a custom virtual keyboard to have just two rows of symbols that are not natively on the keyboard, as I didn’t want to add another layer of rarely used symbols that I’d have to memorize.
(On the image you can see Ubuntu with XFCE4 running on it. I chose Ubuntu because it’s what was easiest to get running in a chroot jail on the phone. I’m using VNC to display the GUI. I even managed to get FEX (x86/x64 emulator) and Wine running, so it runs x86/x64 Linux and Windows apps.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackberry/comments/166bzv5/dude_made_a_q10_keyboard_attachment_for_a/
I’ve had a look around… only finding new ones north of €300…
Thanks for the link!
On the local Amazon I find it for €273: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07PJQNNGP/
Interesting, that there’s such a large regional price difference.
Well, I personally won’t shop on Amazon unless I quite literally cannot find it through any other retailer (this is down to their anti-union stance, and their abhorrant environmental impact- carbon and plastic waste-wise), so I didn’t even look to see what their pricing was as I found it available throgh a bunch of other private retailers and resellers.
Things in Ireland tend to be pretty costly though, I’ll tell ya.
Understandable.
Over here we got a really handy page to compare prices of online retailers. I couldn’t find anything similar for Ireland, but I found an EU version. It’s for some reason still in German, but I guess it should be easy enough to navigate regardless:
https://geizhals.eu/creality-3d-ender-3-v2-a2462014.html
Yo that’s super helpful, thank you for that. 200!
Happy to help! If you need any advice or help, PM me!
will do, thank you :)