Date   : Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:29:02 +0100
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Fwd: Re: Not Exactly a BBC Question But...

Hi,

Arduino looks kinda cool. I might get myself one to play with (Farnell lists 
the Uno for ?20, but the spec is quite low, there is an ARM Olimex for ?24,
or a Cortex-M3 with LCD, four buttons, serial, plus a fine spec for ?35.
Not a RPi, but not a bad little mcu dev board.).


But note, you still have to fiddle with hardware (keyboard to microcontroller, 
microcontroller to PS/2 lead) and software (scan keys, debounce, convert 
to PS/2, bitbash PS/2...) so for a quick fix you might as well wirea PS/2
plug to the User Port and try that first. If you can't get that going, give
up on using a microcontroller, it won't be as easy to poke as BASIC!

As for the keys and the Beeb's lack of them, there is always Ctrl key options.


Best wishes,

Rick

(sent from my mobile)

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From: Conrad Russo <conrad.russo@...>
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Sent: Fri, 06 Jan 2012, 00:03:01 CET
Subject: [BBC-Micro] Fwd: Re:  Not Exactly a BBC Question But...