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

Harmon Seaver hseaver at gmail.com
Mon Jul 2 10:31:55 EDT 2007


   Hmm, disregard my last message. I just looked at a pinout of a serial
 to usb adapter
http://pinouts.ru/SerialPortsCables/usb_serial_adapter_pinout.shtml

   So that obviously isn't going to be that simple. Looks like adapters
are the only way to go.  8-(



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.

-- 
Harmon Seaver



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