Re: 9100 keyboard...

Eek! Thanks for reporting the links. I had no idea they were dead. I need to look into why as the website hasn't move in all the time it's been up there. I bet one of my site updates overwrote the whole file space instead of merging it.

The article does say that the code was originally written for the 16F84 and I later switched to a PIC that supported in-cicuit debugging so yeah, I should say you'd have no problems with a 16F84. It's all in the article ;)

Martin.

On 13 Mar 2010, at 13:41, David Fish wrote:

>
>> 1. I ended up disconnecting the LEDs on my adapter. I think I popped the
> fuse in my 9100 and couldn't be bothered to investigate. The LEDs ended up
>> annoying me anyway and I found I didn't need them. Not difficult to tell
> when caps is on. If there's an obvious error in the design then let me know
> and >I'll modify it.
>
> Your schematic doesn't show any current limiting resistors for the LEDs.
> This might have been part of the reason they popped the fuse. Unless they
> were integral to the LEDs...
>
> Is the code archived anywhere? All the links are dead. I stopped building
> mine just before the coding phase, when I picked up a real Fluke keyboard.
> Someday I'd like to finish it up. It sounds like your code should drop right
> into a 16F84 easily enough.
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
> Had to do a double take then for a second. I did that ages ago now :)
>
> But since you mention it, it's probably worth me pointing a couple of quick
> things out.
>
> 1. I ended up disconnecting the LEDs on my adapter. I think I popped the
> fuse in my 9100 and couldn't be bothered to investigate. The LEDs ended up
> annoying me anyway and I found I didn't need them. Not difficult to tell
> when caps is on. If there's an obvious error in the design then let me know
> and I'll modify it.
>
> 2. I never finished the code. The only thing that is missing is support for
> the control key. In reality, I've used this for two years now and have never
> needed the control key. It's functionality was mostly used in terminal
> emulation mode (i think!). I started to run into problems with code size and
> having to relocate the code within page boundaries. The reality was, the
> project was a means to an end. I had a new 9100FT thanks to a kind seller on
> here and I needed to start using it. As soon as it worked fully, I moved on
> and started using it!
>
> Despite those two things, like I say I've used the keyboard a fair amount
> for two years now and have never been told of any problems. Maybe no-one has
> ever built one? Who knows! I know how many times the code has been
> downloaded ;)
>
> Hopefully someone will find some use in it.
>
> I know the guy that came and fitted the hands free kit for my phone in my
> BMW got a little sheepish when he started to tell me that the steering wheel
> integration was just a PIC micro-controller in a box sending keystrokes down
> an interface and he knocked a lot of money off for me!
>
> I would have loved to have knocked up some little PCBs to make it more
> robust but I just didn't know where to start.
>
> Enjoy,
> Martin.
>
> On 13 Mar 2010, at 00:36, John Robertson wrote:
>
>> Well, a long time ago several of us were trying to make an adapter so we
> could use a PC compatable keyboard with our programmable 9100's - but never
> finished the job...Tom Gudder did and has bared all on his web page:
>>
>> http://www.guddler.co.uk/f9100/9100key.html
>>
>> Thanks Martin!
>>
>> John :-#)#
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