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USB keyboard goes retro



It's almost like a Steampunk Netbook. Very neat.

Thanks to the ever-reliable Instructables for highlighting this special USB keyboard, aka the USB Typewriter, which consists of three main components: a Sensor Board, a USB Interface Board, and Reed Switches.

It says the USB Interface Board features "an Atmega168P microcontroller chip (ie an Arduino chip), a USB Type B socket, and some supporting components (power supply, crystal oscillator, and USB voltage conversion). It controls the operation of the Sensor Board, and sends keystrokes to the host computer over USB."
    
Apparently, this project was created at Hive76, a "hackerspace in centre City Philadelphia", although I can't see it on their website...

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