DIY Old Keyboard 5-pin DIN to PS2 Converter

by shahbazali4u in Circuits > Computers

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DIY Old Keyboard 5-pin DIN to PS2 Converter

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Last Week at 2am in the night in the midst of submitting an important assignment suddenly many of my keyboard keys turned faulty.
As all shops were closed I had to thought of some way.
In my junk I found my old DIN-5 keyboard for my old Pentium II
I took me an hour to convert it to PS2

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My Old Keyboard with a DIN-5 pin

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I cut the old and my existing keyboard wires

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Keyboard PS2 Pinout.jpg
With the help of a Multimeter I determined pin no. with its corresponding colour

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Keyboard PS2 Pinout.jpg
Join the wires with each other with respect to its purpose not its colour i-e clock with clock, data with data etc.

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Tape it up and
VOILA!
Your DIY PS2 keyboard.