amigahid-pico: Use USB (HID) devices on the Amiga

amigahid was developed as firmware for AVR chips with a MAX3421E USB host controller. The project of the GitHub user borb listens for keystrokes of a connected keyboard and sends them, translated in an understandable way for the Amiga, directly to the keyboard connection on the Amiga 500 mainboard to which it is connected. If you are looking for more information about the amigahid project, you will find it on GitHub: https://github.com/borb/amigahid

There is currently a new project from borb on GitHub, which is supposed to provide the amigahid firmware for the cheap Raspberry Pi Pico. For this purpose, the Raspberry Pi Pico is soldered onto a circuit board specially developed for the project. The amigahid-pico project is still in development (work in progress), so not too much should be expected from the project yet. The great advantage of the Raspberry Pi Pico is that the RP2040 microcontroller provides a so-called on-the-go USB controller and a Cortex M0 dual-core CPU. Furthermore, it also enables additional devices (mouse and game controller) to be connected and their signals to be processed with comparatively little effort via the GPIO interface.

As already mentioned: The project is still in development and borb asks for patience on the GitHub page of his project. We remain patient and follow the further development of the project. As soon as there is news, we will report on it: https://github.com/borb/amigahid-pico

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News Source: GitHub
News Source URL: https://github.com/borb/amigahid-pico