February 15, 2016 AT 10:00 am
Adafruit Trinket USB keyboard without Arduino
Via Code and Life.
Happy New Year 2016! After a long hiatus in electronics, I have been quite busy in the last month or so. I have a bigger (USB MIDI related) project posting coming up, but just wanted share a small nugget already.
I ordered a big chunk of things recently from Adafruit shop and Sparkfun. Among them was the lovely Adafruit Trinket (which actually came as a free bonus because I spent way too much on black friday :).
Now I am planning a project which involves transforming the very compact, but already USB-enabled Trinket into a USB MIDI device. However, there are two problems:
- Adafruit examples for USB come in Arduino form
- There are no USB MIDI examples
I somewhat dislike the high-level Arduino environment in cases where low-level performance is needed (and the V-USB implementation is one of those places), and for my later MIDI part, I will need fine-grained control to juggle serial communication and USB. Also, all USB MIDI examples are on “bare metal”, so the Adafruit example Arduino code would require deeper knowledge of Arduino inner workings than I have.
Time to do some chopping!
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Trinket USB Keyboard: I have created an Arduino library that will transform your Trinket into an USB keyboard, and give you an example of how to use the library to create a two button keyboard. Read more.
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