Button IC''s
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I realize that Sean. However, you can canablize a keyboard and use the guts
to connect as many buttons or switches as their are keys. Worst case, you
can even connect your switches across the normal keyboard switches.
Anyway, just a thought.
Regards,
Al Williams
AWC
* Control 8 servos at once
http://www.al-williams.com/awce/pak8.htm
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> From: Sean T. Lamont .lost. [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=X-dXDdERsoNYXYhxH6PFLZiMfTI1CwHDeH6jPkePoess2zoYPZjXpFFf0CjzjIscHMGccDkq9TR4hROpKgDxk4k]lamont@a...[/url
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 7:26 PM
> To: basicstamps@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] Button IC's
>
>
>
> 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=X-dXDdERsoNYXYhxH6PFLZiMfTI1CwHDeH6jPkePoess2zoYPZjXpFFf0CjzjIscHMGccDkq9TR4hROpKgDxk4k]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 -
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to connect as many buttons or switches as their are keys. Worst case, you
can even connect your switches across the normal keyboard switches.
Anyway, just a thought.
Regards,
Al Williams
AWC
* Control 8 servos at once
http://www.al-williams.com/awce/pak8.htm
>
Original Message
> From: Sean T. Lamont .lost. [noparse]/noparse]mailto:[url=http://forums.parallaxinc.com/group/basicstamps/post?postID=X-dXDdERsoNYXYhxH6PFLZiMfTI1CwHDeH6jPkePoess2zoYPZjXpFFf0CjzjIscHMGccDkq9TR4hROpKgDxk4k]lamont@a...[/url
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 7:26 PM
> To: basicstamps@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] Button IC's
>
>
>
> 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=X-dXDdERsoNYXYhxH6PFLZiMfTI1CwHDeH6jPkePoess2zoYPZjXpFFf0CjzjIscHMGccDkq9TR4hROpKgDxk4k]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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Seattle - Bellingham - Vancouver - Portland - Everett - Tacoma - Bremerton
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