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Monday, November 8, 2010

Czech Discovery Ressurects PS/2 Keyboard - Hack a Day

Czech Discovery Ressurects PS/2 Keyboard

posted Nov 8th 2010 2:00pm by Joseph Thibodeau
filed under: Microcontrollers, peripherals hacks

Like us, you probably have piles of old PS/2 keyboards occupying strategic positions in your house and causing all sorts of trouble with the neighbours. As luck would have it, there is a way to put those lazy peripherals to work!

Our friends in the Czech Republic have successfully interfaced a PS/2 keyboard to an STM32 Discovery board (translated), and not a moment too soon—just in time for you to integrate their work into your entries for those juicy contests we told you about (the European one and the North American one).

The project page contains an in-depth walkthrough of how the PS/2 connection talks to the keyboard hardware along with source code and links, more than enough information to get started with a PS/2 keyboard hack on your Discovery application. And why stop at keyboards? Give your old PS/2 mouse a new lease on life, or even hook up your custom game controller to spice up the experience.

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Go there..
http://hackaday.com/2010/11/08/czech-discovery-ressurects-ps2-keyboard/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

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