Here's my idea, but i have no knowledge of IR comms..

Take a pic make it emulate the pc and attach it inside the =
keyboard(powered from batteries).  Take another and make it emulate the =
keyboard.  I think there were comm routines for the keyboard, so that =
part should be easy.  transmission from the keyboard to the pc is the =
trick.  using an ir dectetor from radio shack should work, and it say =
the bandpass center frequency is 40 KHz.  It output the precense of a =
40khz signal as almost logic level voltages(.5 low and 4.2 high).  but =
it also does not say the pickup dection rate :(......  to transmit you =
just modulate the high bits and not low.

would i have to translate the bits from keyb code to ascii before =
transmission?

how long would the translation take at 4Mhz approximately??

and if i did it ascii way how fast would i have to transmit the bytes?

i was thinking like around 2400 bps....(then my palmtop could control it =
too :)

thanks for any ideas/suggestion/criticizm/complaints....

send flames to: /dev/null

andy n1yew

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