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  1. h (h@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2018 16:47:35 EST h h

    @ajroach42 ZX Spectrum (of course)
    In various ways, including this Instructables guide.

    - http://www.instructables.com/id/ZX-Spectrum-Wired-USB-Keyboard-Part-1/

    - http://blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk/2013/05/zx-spectrum-usb-keyboard.html

    - https://hackaday.com/2014/07/31/zx-spectrum-turned-into-a-usb-keyboard/

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    1. ZX Spectrum Wired USB Keyboard Part 1
      from Instructables.com
      In this Instructable I will show you the simple steps I used to convert a ZX Spectrum into a USB Keyboard.I know there are purists out there that will hate this but...
    2. ZX Spectrum Turned Into A USB Keyboard
      By Brian Benchoff from Hackaday

      They’re a little hard to find in the US, but the ZX Spectrum is right up there with the Commodore 64 and the Atari 8-bit computers in England. [Alistair] wanted to recreate the feeling of sitting right in front of the TV with his Speccy, leading him to create the ZX Keyboard, a Spectrum repurposed into a USB keyboard.

      While most projects that take an old key matrix and turn it into a USB keyboard use the TMK firmware, [Alistair] wanted to flex his programming muscles and wrote the firmware from scratch. It runs on an Arduino Pro Mini, scanning the matrix of five columns and eight half rows to turn combinations of keypresses into an astonishing number of commands, given the limited number of keys on the ZX.

      The firmware is available on [Alistair]’s repo, available to anyone who doesn’t want to pay the £50 a new ZX Spectrum keyboard will cost. As far as the usability of a Spectrum keyboard goes, at least [Alistair] didn’t have an Atari 400 sitting in the attic.

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