[GTALUG] Hardware Hack - help needed

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Apr 12 09:49:49 EDT 2017


On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 01:02:39PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> There is a chip, and a project, for that sort of thing.
> 
> The Atmel processors (recently discussed by Peter Hiscock) include
> some quite suitable to the task, notably the Atmega32U4
> 
> http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/en/ATmega32u4
> 
> There's a project for managing keyboard firmware for various keyboards
> using that chip, and it includes some "I built my own from scratch"
> options...
> 
> https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware

By the looks of it, not enough pins.  Sure you could add some GPIO
expander, but that would probably make it slower and more costly.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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