Keyboard for the GP32?!


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Mr. Spiv is working on adding a keyboard to the GP32. He has successfully completed the modifications to the keyboard and is now in the driver phase.

Discuss.

You know you want one.
 
who wouldn't want one? We could use the text editors and write and save stuff!!
 
YAY My cousin has a erickson. Guess ill have to get the keyboard off of him when its finished. Good Work :p
 
Hey.. come on.. there are also other people who have done keyboards for GP32 :blink: For example rbtx99 (who is a real hardware wizard)! I just happened to publish a picture of it (because I like to show what I'm working on) <_< Anyways.. when the driver works I´'ll publish the "sketch driver" source.
 
And the ericsson chatboard has been connected to a lot of things. There is already a suitable driver written in C for the Agenda VR3, which shouldnt really need much modification.

Ed.
 
Hi,

my first post re. GP32 here ... ;)

I was wondering if it would be possible then to connect a Keyboard + mouse RF system to the GP32 through the GP32 RF Wireless module. I know that the GP32 RF module is receiving and sending RF signals at 900 MHz on 4 channels, and I think that I saw some time ago some Keyboard and mouse system RF at the same frequency.

Would it be a crazy idea, or perhaps hardware limitations ...

Velvet
 
Hi - nice work mr spiv

someone should port lua and link in a few small gfx routines - that would get the mobile coding scene grooving!!
 
If you DID see the same frequencies for a keyboard/mouse as the RF-Link, then that could potentially be very very useful. Not sure how it'd be done, but short of bandwidth limitations, I don't know what else would stop them from being used. Although I doubt you could use an RF-Link for a multi-player wireless keyboard game...

That said, this project looks to rock. If/when some drivers come out for an ericson chatboard, I'm certain I'll buy one and try to get it hooked up. And then just hope Skeezix, rlyeh, and the people who've made the Speccy and C64 emus implement keyboard driver support to actually make the mod useful :)

And that support be included in a notepad type proggy - I'd love to be able to make notes on a GP32 in class - twould be great fun to be asked why I had a gameboy out in a lesson lol :D

Perhaps a combination of simple HTML viewer and opening/closing tags with CTRL-B etc to give a Wordpad like experience ideally :D
 
mr.spiv posted on Nov 17 2003 said:
Hey.. come on.. there are also other people who have done keyboards for GP32 :blink: For example rbtx99 (who is a real hardware wizard)! I just happened to publish a picture of it (because I like to show what I'm working on) <_< Anyways.. when the driver works I´'ll publish the "sketch driver" source.
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Really? No offense to rbtx99, but I never heard of it. But the thing I am most excited about are the drivers, not the actual keyboard itself. The drivers will be what make the accomplishment specifically special. B)
 
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Probably a stupid question but will you have to modify the keyboard cable and is there molding involved?
 
This keyboard could really help in emulators for example- all buttons can be used as a solution to the less number of buttons in the snes umu. zx spectrum emus could be used easily. B)
 
Hi!

The keyboard would be _REALLY_ cool combined with the GP32 Linux port (once we have a proper SMC driver)!

One day we may be able to use a terminal with a keyboard on the GP32 ;)


Vince
 
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