Skip to content Hackaday Primary Menu Home Blog Hackaday.io Tindie Hackaday Prize Submit About June 6, 2019 #site-navigation #masthead 35 Comments by: Tom Nardi .entry-meta December 4, 2018 .entry-meta [Frank Adams] liked the keyboard on his Lenovo ThinkPad T61 so much that he decided to design an adapter so he could use it over USB with the Teensy microcontroller . He got the Trackpoint working, and along the way managed to add support for a number of other laptop boards as well. Before you know it, he had a full-blown open source project on his hands. Those projects can sneak up on you when you least expect it… The first step of the process is getting your laptop keyboard of choice connected up to the Teensy, but as you might expect, that’s often easier said than done. They generally use a flexible printed circuit (FPC) “ribbon cable” of some type,...