Comment by xwhatsit
15 hours ago
Awesome! I'm happy I have a future option in case my 3727 ever wears out (which I somehow can't see ever happening...).
I'm not associated with this project in any way, but I'm excited to see the Beamspring (and Model F capsense stuff) is still ticking along. I keep meaning to redesign my controller for the 2020s but the original crappy design keeps working perfectly for my needs and I can't justify the time to update it. I'd love to do something dumb like throw an FPGA at the problem or try and use the RP2350 PIO. I don't think we ever matched what IBM's original ASIC achieved.
Nice to hear from you xwhatsit! Project coordinator here. Your contributions to the mechanical keyboard community are still well-regarded as probably the one who single-handedly saved thousands of original IBM keyboards and gave them a second life.
Not sure if you've been following but forum member Rico recently created a new controller based on your original: an RP2040-based controller that runs on Vial. Check out Rico's github for the "Leyden Jar Controller"