{"id":1135,"date":"2016-10-03T21:19:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T20:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2016-10-03T21:19:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T20:19:40","slug":"retrochallenge-20162-oh-oh-were-half-way-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"Retrochallenge 2016\/2 \u2013 Oh-oh we’re half way there"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"161003-img_20161003_210244\"<\/a>In my last post<\/a> I started setting up my stall and wrote a simply Arduino sketch to read a character from the Hobbytronics USB keyboard adapter and squirt it to my PC.<\/p>\n

My Interak-1 has a 15 way D-type connector for the keyboard as I’ve decided that my keyboard solution will plug into that rather than be buried inside the machine itself.<\/p>\n

I have\u00a0 also decided that the final project will live on an Arduino Pro mini as they are tiny and so the photo above shows the Arduino soldered onto a 15 way D-type plug linked to the USB keyboard PCB.<\/p>\n

Cut to the chase.<\/h2>\n

\"161003-img_20161003_210058\"<\/a>This photo shows things are basically working! Happy Happy Joy Joy etc.<\/p>\n

There is some boxing up to be done and some writing up to be do so that if there is another Interak-1 user out there who needs a keyboard, they can see what I’ve done.<\/p>\n

It’s not so daft really as plenty of old machines used 7 bit parallel ASCII keyboards and plenty of those will have been lost.<\/p>\n

More to follow.<\/p>\n

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In my last post I started setting up my stall and wrote a simply Arduino sketch to read a character from the Hobbytronics USB keyboard adapter and squirt it to my PC. My Interak-1 has a 15 way D-type connector for the keyboard as I’ve decided that my keyboard solution will plug into that rather … Continue reading Retrochallenge 2016\/2 \u2013 Oh-oh we’re half way there<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,122,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c93-blog-posts","category-interak","category-c84-retro-tech"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"andy","author_link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}