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Re: Apple Newton Keyboard?

no, it's not self powered, it runs off of one of the status out lines
(can't remember which offhand) or a seperate power supply depending on
your design.

as far as getting it to talk to a rs-232 port, cinch, it only needs
three connections and a minidin-8 and a db-9 connector for the adapter. 
perhaps a connection to +5v if you want to run it safely off of a 5v
power supply.

james

<< From: Micheal Kelly <>
>Has anyone here successfully interfaced an Apple Newton keyboard with their
>wearable?  It looks very promising - a serially driven (almost) full-layout
>keyboard, that is only about 4" x 10" in size.
>
>>From what I've pieced together on the net, it "talks" at 9600 8N1... but
>I've connected mine to a terminal and see mostly garbage coming out of it.
>I've yet to really "dig in" and start analyzing what it's sending, and
>thought I'd ask here to see if anyone else has had some experience with
>these things.

I have one, but all that I can say for sure is that it is definitely
self powered and serial.

Remember that it's a mac serial interface, so you have to do strange
things to get it talking to an rs232 serial port.

   - Kevin >>

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