Button IC''s
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Sean,
You can pull the keyboard encoder chip from a keyboard or other wise
interface your large number of buttons to the keyboard chip.
Keyboards can be found at used computer stores, goodwill computer stores
or even alot of new keyboards can be found for < $10).
Joshua
--On Monday, October 1, 2001 5:26 PM -0700 "Sean T. Lamont .lost."
<lamont@a...> wrote:
>
> I don't need a keyboard, I need something which will encode a large number
> of buttons.
>
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Al Williams wrote:
>
>> If I understand you, why not use a PS/2 keyboard and a PAK-VI. Works
>> great and you get 100+ buttons out of it.
>> http://www.al-williams.com/awce/pak6.htm
>>
>> By happenstance, the project of the month this month shows how to use the
>> PAK-VI to read a mouse.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Al Williams
>> AWC
>> * Floating point A/D
>> http://www.al-williams.com/awce/pak9.htm
>>
>> >
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>> > From: Sean T. Lamont .lost. [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=XfDrW-40w8sUnswVA3KaV51bpb2q9TOteExzQyXMafVoqEyAP9203pr0Jk9FYtobxH75jICNm9mcXc4KY0gCSQ]lamont@a...[/url
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>> >
>> >
>> > What's an IC that can modulate a large number of button input states
>> > (ie, for a keyboard controller) into a state that can be read by serin?
>> >
>> > Sean T. Lamont, CTO / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet)
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You can pull the keyboard encoder chip from a keyboard or other wise
interface your large number of buttons to the keyboard chip.
Keyboards can be found at used computer stores, goodwill computer stores
or even alot of new keyboards can be found for < $10).
Joshua
--On Monday, October 1, 2001 5:26 PM -0700 "Sean T. Lamont .lost."
<lamont@a...> wrote:
>
> I don't need a keyboard, I need something which will encode a large number
> of buttons.
>
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Al Williams wrote:
>
>> If I understand you, why not use a PS/2 keyboard and a PAK-VI. Works
>> great and you get 100+ buttons out of it.
>> http://www.al-williams.com/awce/pak6.htm
>>
>> By happenstance, the project of the month this month shows how to use the
>> PAK-VI to read a mouse.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Al Williams
>> AWC
>> * Floating point A/D
>> http://www.al-williams.com/awce/pak9.htm
>>
>> >
Original Message
>> > From: Sean T. Lamont .lost. [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=XfDrW-40w8sUnswVA3KaV51bpb2q9TOteExzQyXMafVoqEyAP9203pr0Jk9FYtobxH75jICNm9mcXc4KY0gCSQ]lamont@a...[/url
>> > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 5:50 PM
>> > To: basicstamps@yahoogroups.com
>> > Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] Button IC's
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > What's an IC that can modulate a large number of button input states
>> > (ie, for a keyboard controller) into a state that can be read by serin?
>> >
>> > Sean T. Lamont, CTO / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet)
>> > Seattle - Bellingham - Vancouver - Portland - Everett - Tacoma -
>> > Bremerton email: lamont@a... WWW:
>> > http://www.serv.net "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff
>> > that happens". - H. Simpson
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> Sean T. Lamont, CTO / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet)
> Seattle - Bellingham - Vancouver - Portland - Everett - Tacoma - Bremerton
> email: lamont@a... WWW: http://www.serv.net
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