Thought I'd finally take the time to document a little of what I've done since I picked this Amiga up.
Ever since I saw the Amiga I loved its vintage style and looks, and thought that just robbing it of the keys and switches would do it no justice. So, based off this thread -
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=139358.0 - I went ahead and picked it up from a member on here. I had never worked with Arduino before, but it seemed pretty straight forward.
Well, took me some time messing with the Arduino IDE to finally get the code uploaded. There was some tricks to get the drivers to install, such as renaming/force installing Arduino drivers.
Anyways, after that, you need to make sure the Arduino IDE is set to Leonardo mode, and bingo a copy-pasta of the code from the linked thread uploaded fine.
The Arduino forum listed some pinouts that didn't quite make sense based off what I was seeing on my Amiga (see my picture clarifying which revision I had) so I found this reference:
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=17871Here's the pinout that I was able to partially successfully reference
So far, I've been able to properly identify the 5v power and the ground, but the rest I have not been able to successfully figure out which wire is which. The keyboard turns on, LED's light up, and I can toggle the CAPS LOCK led on/off like normal, but I see no input with my PC nor do the Rx and Tx lights look to show promising indications on the Leonardo.
The pinout has been where I'm stuck at
It seems like there were different revisions of the Amiga 2000, and I found ones that looked different in this area - this is what mine looked like:
So, for now, it's sitting waiting until I either find an answer in google, or figure it out on my own. I think I may just have to leave the 5v and Ground properly hooked up, and then just start guessing with every combo possible for the rest of the wires.