857 857 Datasheet

PRODUCT ID 857

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SENSORS / TOUCH Miniature Keyboard- MicrocontrollerFriendly PS/2 and USB PRODUCT ID 857 Add a typing interface to your project with this microcontroller-friendly miniature keyboard. We found the smallest PS/2+USB keyboard available, a mere x 220mm x 118mm x 16mm ! It's small but usable to make a great accompaniment to either a microcontroller project or a computer such as the Beagle Bone or Raspberry Pi. The keyboard supports either USB or PS/2 interface and will automatically adjust to whichever its plugged into there's an adapter included . Comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, and has a num-lock number pad. Nearly all microcontrollers have existing PS/2 keyboard examples that would work fine with this keyboard. For Ardiuno users, we tried out PJRC's PS2_Keyboard library with great success - just check the 'simple text' example for which pins you can connect to on your 'duino on an Uno we used digital pins 2 and We suggest our PS/2 adapter cable to make the wiring easy. Start typing and you'll see the data appear in the serial terminal! To use with a Raspberry Pi, change the keyboard to USA PC104 layout: • Switch to root user. • Run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' and change from en_GB.UTF-8 to en_US.UTF-8. • Run 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration' and change the keyboard to USA PC104 again, change as needed . 7/23/2015

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SENSORS / TOUCH

Miniature Keyboard- MicrocontrollerFriendly PS/2 and USB

PRODUCT ID 857

Add a typing interface to your project with this microcontroller-friendly miniature keyboard. We found the smallest PS/2+USB keyboard available, a mere x 220mm x 118mm x 16mm ! It's small but usable to make a great accompaniment to either a microcontroller project or a computer such as the Beagle Bone or Raspberry Pi. The keyboard supports either USB or PS/2 interface and will automatically adjust to whichever its plugged into there's an adapter included .

Comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, and has a num-lock number pad. Nearly all microcontrollers have existing PS/2 keyboard examples that would work fine with this keyboard. For Ardiuno users, we tried out PJRC's PS2_Keyboard library with great success - just check the 'simple text' example for which pins you can connect to on your 'duino on an Uno we used digital pins 2 and We suggest our PS/2 adapter cable to make the wiring easy. Start typing and you'll see the data appear in the serial terminal!

To use with a Raspberry Pi, change the keyboard to USA PC104 layout:
• Switch to root user.
• Run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' and change from en_GB.UTF-8 to en_US.UTF-8.
• Run 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration' and change the keyboard to USA PC104 again, change as needed .
7/23/2015

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857 Datasheet

Datasheet ID: 857 514922