I want to build a circuit that will have a USB connection and plug into a PC and be seen as your normal USB keyboard. I want my device to be able to send keystrokes to the PC as if a user pressed the keyboard themselves. I have a microcontroller that will be sending the keystrokes based on inputs from a "controller".
I initially thought of hacking a keyboard to get the guts out, but this isn't a very elegant solution. I opened a couple different keyboards I had laying around and they all had a "dot" for a microcontroller/silicone, which leads me to think they had custom part made. Plus, I don't like the idea of soldering a bunch of wires to connect their "header" to my circuit - I'd like to have everything on my own PCB.
I thought there must be someone who makes an all-in-one IC that has a USB connection on one side and accepts a keyboard matrix on the other, but I can't seem to find one. The few I did find were microcontrollers themselves, and I don't want to learn to program another micro just for this function.
If anyone has heard of something that would do what I want, it'd be much appreciated.
I initially thought of hacking a keyboard to get the guts out, but this isn't a very elegant solution. I opened a couple different keyboards I had laying around and they all had a "dot" for a microcontroller/silicone, which leads me to think they had custom part made. Plus, I don't like the idea of soldering a bunch of wires to connect their "header" to my circuit - I'd like to have everything on my own PCB.
I thought there must be someone who makes an all-in-one IC that has a USB connection on one side and accepts a keyboard matrix on the other, but I can't seem to find one. The few I did find were microcontrollers themselves, and I don't want to learn to program another micro just for this function.
If anyone has heard of something that would do what I want, it'd be much appreciated.
