{"id":46,"date":"2012-01-09T20:25:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T04:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2012-01-09T20:25:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T04:25:57","slug":"keyboard-breakout-board-on-the-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Keyboard Breakout Board on the Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2012\/01\/how-to-usb-keyboard-breakout-board.html\">How-To<\/a> on turning an old keyboard into a breakout board to use for projects. \u00a0I can see this being really useful in a MAME build or as a control interface for a uC project if you wanted to avoid buying an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimarc.com\/ipac1.html\">I-PAC<\/a> or something similar.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: After doing some reading, this wouldn&#8217;t actually be ideal for a MAME build. \u00a0Keyboards have issues with &#8216;Blocking&#8217;, meaning that you can&#8217;t always press multiple keys\u00a0simultaneously. \u00a0A device like the aforementioned I-PAC solves this by scanning each key input pin individually, allowing you to press as many keys at once as necessary.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great How-To on turning an old keyboard into a breakout board to use for projects. \u00a0I can see this being really useful in a MAME build or as a control interface for a uC project if you wanted to avoid buying an I-PAC or something similar. Note: After doing some reading, this wouldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-repurposing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}