In the recent video about Chris's ULA for the Electron, there was a PS/2 adapter board for the Electron featured, plugging into the keyboard connector. I guess it is that kind of thing you're after.Just sat in the garden enjoying a beer in this lovely warm weather, and got to thinking....
Would it be possible to use an Arduino or a pico to interface between a USB keyboard and the Beeb & masters keyboard connectors. ( Given that they are different of course)
The clever thing about that PS/2 adapter, but also the odd thing, was that it uses the hole in the case that the RF modulator uses, requiring the modulator to be removed. The use-case mentioned was that you would have an Electron without a keyboard (or maybe without a working keyboard).
But then I wonder how likely it is that you still have the whole case and need to feed the keyboard connection out of a hole in the side to a separate keyboard, but don't actually have a keyboard. Without a keyboard, there's room right there for... a keyboard. Maybe the idea is that you have a broken but cosmetically intact keyboard for show, or you don't want to use the perfectly decent keyboard and instead use a modern keyboard with a different layout for added confusion.
Statistics: Posted by paulb — Sun Jun 02, 2024 9:22 pm