6 Nov
2011
6 Nov
'11
1:23 p.m.
On Nov 6, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Over at http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/prjhid.html,
the AVR V-USB
project site, there are a number of nifty low-cost AVR projects for
various keyboard USB projects, including replacing the electronics of
a Model M with a custom board, adapting a Sparc Station keyboard, a
RS232C serial terminal keyboard, a C64 keyboard...to USB.
That actually brings to mind a converter I've been meaning to make, but have so far
not put the dollars or time in to cook up the necessary board for it. I'd like to
have an ADB-to-USB translator of the opposite sort usually seen; I have a bunch of old
Macs and a dwindling supply of keyboards for them, so I need something which can put a USB
keyboard/mouse on the ADB bus.
It'd be no small feat, especially if I wanted to throw in USB hub support along with
mouse support so one could plug this into a USB KVM switch; there are already plenty of
"gotchas" cropping up in my mind about emulating different types of keyboards,
foreign ones, etc. Nonetheless, it would solve a number of problems for me and hopefully
for other people as well.
If I ever get around to it, I'll put up the plans somewhere so folks can tinker with
it.
- Dave