[Wear-Hard] Twiddler-1 conversion to USB?

[Bryan Hurley]

It is a Twiddler one. So it has an AT or PS/2 (doesn't matter, electrically
the same), which is for 5v power for the device. Then the actual data goes
back and forth via a 9 pin din serial connection.

So he could use the USB to PS/2 adapter to provide power, then a USB to
serial adapter like:

http://www.pfranc.com/usb/usb.shtml

to provide the data conduit.

If it was a twiddler 2 then he would just need the USB to PS/2 adapter and
that is all.

Just a little confusion I assume as the T2 has been out forever and the T1
was only around for a little bit.

-Bryan Hurley

On 6/30/07, tonyh <hr at mail2.tekgear.com> wrote:
>
> *I think you just need one of these:
>
> http://www.tekgear.com/index.cfm?pageID=90&prodid=58&section=99
>
> -Tony
>
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:21:14 -0400, Bryan Hurley wrote*
> >
> > The twiddler is a proprietary serial connection. it is standards speeds
> with standard pinouts, but proprietary data I believe. So you could get it
> to work using a USB to serial adapter to plug into the USB port, but it
> would still be a serial device. To get it to PS/2 you would need to have fun
> with a microcontroller to convert the twiddler data into standard ps/2
> format data.
> >
> > Then again, since it is serial, you can also get a serial to bluetooth
> adapter and connect it wirelessly as a bluetooth serial device.. Of course
> you need power too.
> >
> > -Bryan Hurley
> >
> >
> > On 6/29/07, Harmon Seaver <hseaver at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >   I just dug out my Twiddler, haven't played with it for years. It's
> > > the old style, not a #2, and has the old PC din connectors, although I
> >
> > > added PS2 adapters on those. Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone has
> > rewired
> > > theirs for USB?
> > >   Since the DIN connector is just for power, and the actual key codes
> > > go through the serial connector it seems doable, maybe even just with
> > > PS2 to USB adapters and a serial to USB adapter, but that also would
> > be
> > > pretty clutzy. Much better to totally rewire the thing, if I had a
> > > schematic for doing it????
> > >
> > > --
> > > Harmon Seaver
> > >
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