[Coco] USB keyboard interface for CoCo

Sat Dec 8 07:48:04 EST 2012

Last week I started to make an Arduino-Coco Keyboard emulator. It is not
hard to do. I don`t have the USB host, so I used the serial as a the
keyboard. It looks like it will work. However I just bought a real keyboard
for CoCo on eBay, and I'll wait for it to arrive. I fear to burn my pic
testing the emulator.

If someone wants to test it, I will happly send the code. All you need is
an Arduino Uno board (any board would work), a 16 way flat cable (male to
female) to connect, and a 16 way pin to connect to the coco. All of this is
sold in Dealextreme for under 25 bucks.

Anyone? Anyone? Büller, Büller?

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:

> Sounds like a job for a PIC.
>
> The Other Frank
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 06:43:08PM -0600, Chris Hawks wrote:
> > On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:44:25 -0700
> > William Astle <lost at l-w.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > On 12-12-07 04:03 PM, James Dessart wrote:
> > > > I'd love to see a USB keyboard adapter for the CoCo. While I've got
> an
> > > > AT keyboard and the Cloud-9 adapter there are so many more varieties
> > > > of USB keyboards and they're easy to get ahold of in case of hardware
> > > > failures.
> > >
> > > I have an AT/PS2 adapter and a PS2/USB adaptor stacked into my AT
> > > keyboard adapter. It's been working fine with any USB keyboard I've
> > > thrown at it.
> >
> >       What I need is a CoCo keyboard to USB adapter. Then I can put
> > my Raspberry Pi running Mess or XRoar in a CoCo case w/keyboard.
> >
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