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Busted Powerbook 180 to a working computer via gutting & RaspberryPi [message #332667] Mon, 21 November 2016 14:43
Dániel Zrinyifalvi is currently offline  Dániel Zrinyifalvi
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Hi all!

I have a Powerbook 180, that sadly got it's motherboard fried in a
lightning / power outage incident. I put it on a shelf and forgot about it
for about a decade, but now I want to make a usable computer out of it. My
ide is to gut the motherboard and install a Raspberry Pi 3 inside and an
iPad 3 screen with an HDMI converter connected to the Pi. Then either
MiniVMac or Basilisk II will do the trick to run MacOS on it again. My
problem is that I would like to keep the original keyboard and trackball,
and thought about making an ADB-to-USB converter via an Arduino Nano, but
the keyboard ribbon is actually not ADB, it's on the motherboard, and is
pretty much unusable. Did anyone made something like this before that I can
use as a reference for the keyboard? Some Powerbook-keyboard-ribbon-to-ADB
schematics?

Thanks in advance, everyone!

zdanee

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