![]() Did you remember your safety glasses? You might want a face mask, too, if you like your lungs. Out comes the Dremel tool, and at 15k RPM, the cuts are made fast. ![]() That hole turns out to be where the hook-shaped pegs under the touchpad latch on, so following my example may leave your touchpad area slightly bowed (see last photo). Maybe it wasn't the best choice, but I decided to simply widen the existing cable slot by joining it with the neighboring hole. Where were we? Oh, right making a hole for the cable to go through. ![]() The ribbon cable is about to have a bad day, so pull it gently straight back from the connector. The small circuit board with the caps lock, num lock, and scroll lock LEDs on it is the controller card. That will help you later when you have to put them back together the same way they started out. But wait! Unless you can design original origami figures in your head, you should take a pen and mark both the cable and the connector with an asymmetrical symbol, like the letter "F," right where they meet up. Once you have the shell off, you need to disconnect the ribbon cable between the keyboard and its controller card. The other one is behind a sticker marked "DO NOT REMOVE." You know what to do. Two of these cowardly screws are below the rubber feet to the front of the keyboard peel the feet off with your thumbnail or a pointy stick. There are eight screws on the bottom of the keyboard, but three of them are hiding from your screwdriver. It's time to take the case off of the ASK-3100 Series Ultra Mini Keyboard. An XO laptop from OLPC, preferably one that has a keyboard problem. Lots of cellophane tape (or hundreds of tiny helpers who don't mind being sealed inside your XO forever) 5. A jeweler's large phillips screwdriver, or one of those double-ended freebies they used to give away at IT-related conventions 4. Dremel tool or equivalent in sweat and pain 3. Who wants to mess with an extension cord and the potential for bad weather? Also because my XO's keyboard failed - the Ctrl key got stuck - after the 30 day warranty period had already ended. ![]() I did it because I had too many Dremel wheels on my hands and my XO was so much more convenient to cut holes in than my neighbor's car. Radical surgery to the lower half of the XO is necessary, so your OLPC will never be the same if you do this. This is "phase I" - getting the keyboard into the lower half of the case, but leaving the USB cable connected to the external USB port (UPDATE: Phase II instructable now posted). Here's how to ditch the jelly and squeeze a normal keycaps-and-springs type USB keyboard into an OLPC XO laptop. I don't know about you, but I can sure tell silicone from the real thing. ![]()
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