For sale: USB Military Surplus Aircraft Control Display Unit (CDU) Keypad - LAST ONE

Hi everyone,

Just a quick repost. The first three waves of keypads went out and are in people's hands now and I've got just one more keypad left for sale.

[I've made some more things] (https://imgur.com/a/1Y7ftJW)!

You might remember me from such posts as I made a thing..., I salvaged a pair of Military Surplus Aircraft Control Display Unit (CDU) Keypads..., and The Kerbal Space Program All-in-One Throttle and Stick and Button Box and Keyboard (KSP-AiOTaSaBBaK for short).

I'm happy to annouce that I've been able to get my hands on a few more of those CDU keypads I posted a few months ago and I've produced a limited run of USB military surplus flight control keypads for sale.

Here are the keypad's features:

alphanumeric keys (a-z and 0-9),

period, minus, slash, question mark, up, down, left, right, F1-F7, ESC, Space Bar, Enter, Backspace;

12 joystick/gamepad buttons;

2 axes (one rotary dial, one locking on/off knob);

USB connection (USB B cable not included).

Here's an album with a quick tour of one of these USB keypads. Inside the plastic and aluminum enclosures, these are powered by a Teensy 2.0 USB board and connected to a computer via a USB B cable (not included). The keypads support key presses and holds, as well as a few simultaneous key presses. If you have a simpit or something else you'd want to mount this on, the keypad can be unscrewed from the enclosure and you'd be free to come up with your own mounting solution.

For the curious, here's a few videos of me pushing some buttons to give you a sense of the tactile feel of these keypads. Most of these keypads have keys with a short travel distance and fairly flat, hollow clicking sound, but a few have slightly taller keys with a springier push. If you have a strong preference either way, let me know and I'll see what I can do (first come, first serve). Otherwise, you get which ever keypad you get.

The keypads themselves are military surplus. This means they've all had use-lives before they came to me that I can only guess at. These would have been installed on the front of a control display unit in the cockpit of an aircraft and used to input coordinates, navigate menus, adjust settings, etc. on the aircraft's navigation unit. The screen would have been visible through the large hole in the center of the keypad and the eight arrow keys around the window would have been used to interact with prompts on-screen. When I got them, most of them were pretty dirty and I've given them all good clean. Comments on my earlier posts suggest this kind of CDU was installed in a wide range of aircraft, including C-130s, AC-130s, EA-6Bs, E-8Cs, CH-47s, H-53s, and H-65s, and I'm sure a load of other similar aircraft as well.

As you can imagine, the keypads I have for sale here come in a range of cosmetic conditions. Here's a side-by-side comparison of one of the nicer units I have for sale with one of the rougher ones. For the most part, this roughness is only cosmetic. Most of what you see is just paint that's been scratched away revealing the metal underneath. There are some minor dings and dents that give some character to the metal housings, but nothing serious. I've put them all thorough some pretty thorough testing and have pulled out a few units that have a minor issue (see below for more on this). This being said, I don't know what these keypads have been through before they got to me, so I can't make any promises about how they'll hold up in the future; but I have to imagine that your simpit or desktop is a much more hospitable environment than in the air or on a flightdeck or tarmac somewhere.

I'm asking $300 plus shipping for each USB keypad unit. If you would like me to reprogram some of the keys before I ship the keypad, I'm happy to do it for an extra $25 (see current keybindings here...I can map any button on the keypad into a specific keystroke or series of keystrokes or mappable joystick button).

I've got just one more left. Let me know if you're interested!

Sale via PayPal invoice, shipping to US addresses only, please. PM me for more details.

For sale: USB Military Surplus Aircraft Control Display Unit (CDU) Keypads - just a few more left

Hi everyone,

Just a quick repost with the mod's blessings. The first wave of keypads went out and are in people's hands now and I've got just a few more keypads left for sale.

[I've made some more things] (https://imgur.com/a/1Y7ftJW)!

You might remember me from such posts as I made a thing..., I salvaged a pair of Military Surplus Aircraft Control Display Unit (CDU) Keypads..., and The Kerbal Space Program All-in-One Throttle and Stick and Button Box and Keyboard (KSP-AiOTaSaBBaK for short).

I'm happy to annouce that I've been able to get my hands on a few more of those CDU keypads I posted a few months ago and I've produced a limited run of USB military surplus flight control keypads for sale.

Here are the keypad's features:

alphanumeric keys (a-z and 0-9),

period, minus, slash, question mark, up, down, left, right, F1-F7, ESC, Space Bar, Enter, Backspace;

12 joystick/gamepad buttons;

2 axes (one rotary dial, one locking on/off knob);

USB connection (USB B cable not included).

Here's an album with a quick tour of one of these USB keypads. Inside the plastic and aluminum enclosures, these are powered by a Teensy 2.0 USB board and connected to a computer via a USB B cable (not included). The keypads support key presses and holds, as well as a few simultaneous key presses. If you have a simpit or something else you'd want to mount this on, the keypad can be unscrewed from the enclosure and you'd be free to come up with your own mounting solution.

For the curious, here's a few videos of me pushing some buttons to give you a sense of the tactile feel of these keypads. Most of these keypads have keys with a short travel distance and fairly flat, hollow clicking sound, but a few have slightly taller keys with a springier push. If you have a strong preference either way, let me know and I'll see what I can do (first come, first serve). Otherwise, you get which ever keypad you get.

The keypads themselves are military surplus. This means they've all had use-lives before they came to me that I can only guess at. These would have been installed on the front of a control display unit in the cockpit of an aircraft and used to input coordinates, navigate menus, adjust settings, etc. on the aircraft's navigation unit. The screen would have been visible through the large hole in the center of the keypad and the eight arrow keys around the window would have been used to interact with prompts on-screen. When I got them, most of them were pretty dirty and I've given them all good clean. Comments on my earlier posts suggest this kind of CDU was installed in a wide range of aircraft, including C-130s, AC-130s, EA-6Bs, E-8Cs, CH-47s, H-53s, and H-65s, and I'm sure a load of other similar aircraft as well.

As you can imagine, the keypads I have for sale here come in a range of cosmetic conditions. Here's a side-by-side comparison of one of the nicer units I have for sale with one of the rougher ones. For the most part, this roughness is only cosmetic. Most of what you see is just paint that's been scratched away revealing the metal underneath. There are some minor dings and dents that give some character to the metal housings, but nothing serious. I've put them all thorough some pretty thorough testing and have pulled out a few units that have a minor issue (see below for more on this). This being said, I don't know what these keypads have been through before they got to me, so I can't make any promises about how they'll hold up in the future; but I have to imagine that your simpit or desktop is a much more hospitable environment than in the air or on a flightdeck or tarmac somewhere.

I'm asking $300 plus shipping for each USB keypad unit. As I mentioned above, there are a few keypads that have a small issue with them (either a single joystick/gamepad button doesn't work, a few of the keys are temperamental and need to be pressed in a specific way, or there is some interference between the two dials) and I'm asking $250 for one of these units (if you're interested in one of these, let me know and I'll tell you all about the friendly gremlins that live in these ones). If you would like me to reprogram some of the keys before I ship the keypad, I'm happy to do it for an extra $25 (see current keybindings here...I can map any button on the keypad into a specific keystroke or series of keystrokes or mappable joystick button).

I've got just a few more left. Let me know if you're interested!

Sale via PayPal invoice, shipping to US addresses only, please. PM me for more details.