Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 20:25:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin McClelland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Soldering temperatures
> Actually, the keyboard thing is something I've been meaning to try out for > a while ... the Palm/Stowaway keyboards are just serial connections ... I > *THINK* they could just be rigged into the serial port (and powered > somehow) and, if they're nice they'll just be sending ASCII codes through > serial. If not, I'd imagine it'd be a relatively trivial task of rigging up > a PIC 16F84 to translate (especially since they use so little power you can > power them off the DTR line of your average serial port). I do wonder if > you could directly tap the serial line on the docking connector though ... > the line driver might well be in the docking bar itself given I can only > see the E232C line mentioned (although I haven't looked *TOO* closely). It should work, it is just a matter of getting the right signals to the right lines. I found some information on setting it up to work with Linux, just need to build a convertor to connect to the Palm keyboard. I have the link at work, will try to post it tomorrow. At least they got it working on the serial port anyway. ------------------------------------------------- Get your free @Elvis e-mail account at Elvis.com! http://www.elvis.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
