On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Christopher Havel laserhawk64@gmail.com wrote:
Regarding the art -- you're welcome! Please do let me know if I can be of further help there ;)
yes please, let's talk off-list.
One question that seems germane to the list -- doing some random EOMA-68 tinkering in my head, lol -- would it be possible to generate say a PS/2 keyboard port from the GPIOs, reasonably easily
yeah i don't see why not. if you google it there are plenty of people trying it.
(ie without having to dev up a homebrew driver)...?
ahh you _might_ get away with a userspace service, using /dev/gpio/xxxx and libuevent. libuevent is designed to interact with the uevent (user-generated event) driver so you could do bit-banging gpio emulating the keyboard then generate linux keyboard events in userspace and have the kernel think they're kernel events.
I'm thinking specifically of the A20 card here -- I have an AT101W keyboard (mechanical, from the mid-90s or so) that I'd love to tuck an EOMA card into -- it's just the right size that I may be able to fit the Micro Desktop Board in there if I do a custom enclosure for it...
cool!
then again since I like the junkyard look I may go enclosureless on this one... prolly will in fact since I've lost the screws that hold the thing shut...
bit of sticky-back plastic never did any harm... [1]
l.