Unit: LK162-12 Case: Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro Difficulty: Medium Other: It's a tight fit, and to make room inside the keyboard, I had to remove a screw column, reposition a few capacitors on the keyboard's controller, and file down the chassis for those three Internet buttons a bit. To scale...

I'm in the United States; I got the adapter cable from a locally owned retailer here(CompuForce, http://www.cforce.net/). The device is made by a company called Manhattan, and seems very similar to high-speed USB to RS232 adapter that Keyspan makes, except this one only set me back $30 US :-).

Well, I found one that seems to work; a cheap generic brand PL2303 based adapter, which, once stripped down, fit easily in the small space. It also helped that it didn't require an external power supply. Here's the finished project, horriffic Dremeling included. To get everything to fit, I had to re...

I have an LK162-12 module(16*2) attached to my Linux box. When attached to my "real" serial port, /dev/tts/0, it works perfectly; I can echo bytes to it manually from the command line, and I can use it with LCDProc clients. When I attach it via a USB adapter(generic brand, powered by a PL2...

I plan to embed an LK162-12 16*2 LCD in my USB keyboard :smile: The keyboard's got an internal USB hub with a spare channel and plenty enough power to drive and backlight the display, but this will obviously require the use of a USB to Serial adapter. Can anyone reccomend such an adapter that will w...