Hello fellow forum members,
I am working on a project to install a Raspberry Pi Model A inside of a keyboard. I live in the U.S. and I'm still trying to buy the Model A as it is not easily found here yet. However, I do have a host keyboard already.
I was given a Keycat by a co-worker and I am attempting to convert it from a five pin DIN to USB. I purchased an adapter to go from the five pin DIN to a six pin PS/2. I also purchased the PS/2 to USB converter sold at clickykeyboards but it is giving me problems. After typing 2 or 3 letters the last letter typed repeats itself until I press that same key which makes it stop repeating. This happens in both Windows XP and Linux Mint so I'm pretty sure it is not an OS problem. I also bought a dongle that converts a PS/2 mouse and PS/2 keyboard to USB. This dongle exhibits the same behavior as the PS/2 to USB converter from clickykeyboards.
I have had good luck with the trackball built into the right side of the keyboard. I bought a serial to USB cable that has excellent Linux driver support built-in to the kernel. Using the trackball is hard work as lots of movement of the ball translates to small movements on the screen. That is okay though because at least it works.
I have searched the geekhack forums for Keycat and found zero results, hence my posting. I read Soarer's post detailing his code for a Teensy board. Tonight I made an order for a Teensy 2.0 board and hope to get it in a week or so. Since I didn't have much luck with the two products I already bought, I went with this one thinking that I could tweak the code if needed to make it work for me. Has anyone here ever tried Soarer's Converter on a Keycat?