AVR Microcontrollers

Last week while taking a break from working on my Apple 1 clone, and from working on the 6802 homebrew stuff, I started looking into AVR microcontrollers. I was really looking for an input device that someone else had already built for converting PS2 keyboard scancodes into ASCII.

I contacted one guy, but his device converts to ASCII serial out, and I need parallel. So while poking around for more info, I came across a couple of sample code snippets, using various microcontrollers to accomplish capturing keyboard input. Specifically the Atmel microcontrollers. This eventually led to the purchase of this book: "Embedded C Programming and the Atmel AVR". I figured it was time for me to start investigating these chips and maybe do a little tinkering, and maybe even build my own PS2 to ASCII keyboard converter, which I could then use on my Apple 1 clone project. So far, it is pretty interesting. I installed the C IDE but haven't done much with it yet. The IDE that comes with the book is called: CodeVisionAVR C Compiler Evaluation. More to come on that.