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Cheapest Keyboard Encoder
CoryBee:
Cheapest keyboard encoder option. I mean cheapest, no keyboard hacks though.
DIY options, commercial option I am curious what is the cheapest way. Need about 10 of them for several projects and tired of hacking up gamepads and messing with joytokey.
A decent DIY keyboard encoder using an IC would be nice, if someone has a relatively cheap board layout I can make that would suffice.
Cheers!
Unstupid:
Xin-mo 1 player from paradise arcade shop? $18
http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/en/mame-arcade-parts/229-xin-mo-1-player-arcade-controller-to-usb-pc-or-ps3-0855742002290.html
CoryBee:
--- Quote from: Unstupid on August 09, 2013, 03:14:14 am ---Xin-mo 1 player from paradise arcade shop? $18
http://www.paradisearcadeshop.com/en/mame-arcade-parts/229-xin-mo-1-player-arcade-controller-to-usb-pc-or-ps3-0855742002290.html
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Forgot to mention it needs to be 2-Player, or at least 22 inputs
UFO:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=120362.0
PL1:
Xin-Mo is a gamepad encoder, not a keyboard encoder.
Buy an AVR here or here and do one of the following:
1. Load the current KADE firmware (20 dedicated inputs), connect two buttons to HWB and another input for shifted functions using diodes like the right side of the diagram here.
Pros: Easy to load/customize. Cons: Uses 4 diodes. (Not much of a Con IMHO but :dunno)
2. Load the older AVR encoder extended firmware from here -- Group B or Group D on the Full Key Mapping Table.
Extended Mode Wiring diagram is also there.
Pros: No diodes. Cons: Harder to load, can't customize the key map.
Related PM sent.
Scott