> Keyboards, is someone working on a interface-thingie so that you can hook up > a PC-keyboard to your Sam? If so what is the status about it.
I've had one working for quite a long time now (see www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/A.Gale/sam/ ) but sadly the central chip isn't easy to obtain anymore. Also, there wasn't really much interest in it, possibly because it required soldering inside the SAM. If there is sufficient interest then I may pick it up again in the new year. I was thinking about a design that used more easily available chips, and the biggest design decision is "how many keys can be pressed simultaneously" ? The simplest design I'm thinking of would allow any or all of the cursor keys, ctrl, shift, and symbol shift to be pressed simultaneously, plus any one other key. This would use approximately 13 chips for an internal version, and 20 for an external version. To add another key (any) would require another 6 chips per key.... the PCB would be getting quite hairy with > 1 'any' key, though. Andy
