LK201 emulation

[Sophie Haskins]

I would absolutely be interested in this - while I'd love to use original hardware where possible, it's not always easy to get peripherals at the same time as machines. A long term dream of mine is to build some sort of general-purpose box that can make connections to arbitrary vintage computer keyboard/mouse/video ports, and connect in to modern HDMI & USB peripherals to make it easier to just pull a machine off the shelf and get going.

> On May 17, 2020, at 5:13 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> Gentlepeople,
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> I've been having problems with broken LK201s, so as a workaround I created an adapter that connects to a standard PC USB keyboard and makes it look like an LK201.  It's based on an Arduino (specifically, Adafruit Trinket M0, an amazingly tiny yet powerful small microprocessor).
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> It's working at this point, though it needs a few small software tweaks to make it complete.  I'm going to turn my breadboard into something slightly more polished.
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> Question to the list: is this something that would be of interest to others?  If yes, I can make the design available.  Perhaps the PCB layout and parts list.  I don't think I want to get into building units for others, though.
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> 	paul
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