T oday we transfomed this magnificent mess of wires.... Into this beautiful little module It plugs into the Minstrel 4th's RC2014 port, either directly, or as here, using an RC2014 backplane . It accepts a USB keyboard* via an OTG adaptor (USB A to micro). Like its inspiration, the Jupiter Ace, you wouldn't want to spend serious typing time on the Minstrel's tactile keyboard. It's nice to have a familiar layout of full-size keys, and the interface's firmware buffers your input, meaning that you can type as fast as you like. It took a lot of development time to get to a working breadboard prototype. It's pretty fragile and so it feels very good to have received the first PCBs today. There was a minor hitch, which has to do with my limited understanding of the Pico's confusing VBUS/VSYS power supply circuit. In the end it was easily solved with a solder bridge and here it is working: Since ordering these version 1 boards, I decided to add the ability to conn...