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

[Bryan Hurley]

It shouldn't be too hard to remove the cable and build one that goes from
USB to serial and taps the 5v off the usb connection. You will need a
multimeter, extra wire, soldering iron, etc. No harder than bad wiring in a
car or anything else. A pain, definitely.

-Bryan Hurley


On 7/2/07, Harmon Seaver <hseaver at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   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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