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Tutorial 19: The Keyboard

Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 5:11 am
by Mike
Hey everyone,

Tutorial 19 should be out this weekend. This includes the demo too ;) It covers almost everything about keyboard programming, including:

-Drivers;
-Breaking apart a keyboard;
-Keyboard protocols;
-keyboard encoder 8048 compatible: commands, ports, interfacing;
-keyboard controller 8042 compatible: commands, ports, interfacing;
-scan code sets;
-keyboard IRQ;
-keyboard polling;
-keyboard device drivers

This includes the first tutorial where we are required to program multiple controllers to work with a single device. Using the basic keyboard driver developed in this tutorial, the demo will also be a basic Command Line Interface (CLI) interface similar to a basic command line shell.

Alot of fun stuff coming up! :) If anyone has any additional ideas that they would like to see, please feel free to let me know.

Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 4:12 am
by Andyhhp
Sounds great - I cant wait!

Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:02 pm
by Andyhhp
wow - fantastically detailed keyboard tutorial. I cant wait for enough time to get started!

~Andrew