In my continuing quest to turn a thinkpad keyboard into a USB keyboard, I decided to try the at90 line of avr chips. Bought a AT90USBKEY2 dev kit, and tried to put TMK on it.

This was another "one" day project. It ended in running the onekey example, so this post is more just "how to use the AT90USBKEY2.

Important stuff first: How to flash.

• press RST and HWB simultaneously on the board
• release RST then release HWB
• Power cycle the board. IMPORTANT

The end results of my day are pretty much this repo of a blink sketch with a makefile that works and a README telling you how to press the buttons. https://github.com/mtfurlan/at90usbkey2-blink

What happened is that the timing in the blink sketch was wrong.

I spent most of my day working on trying to figure out why the delay was wrong, and the best guess seems to be that there is some issue with the soft reset. I may follow up with atmel on that, maybe I'm just doing something really stupid.

Or just reset the board better.

Important documentation:

Thanks to the CSC 460 Project Team A from 2007 for this pinout diagram:

And then the jtag pinout I think from the atmel manual:

Thanks to this person http://generichid.sourceforge.net/hardware.htm for which pins are already used by onboard stuff, and how to undo the onboard stuff if you need.

And lastly, TMK.

To make the TMK onekey example work, you really just need to change MCU to at90usb1287. That's it, it works.

EDIT: Clock speed is 8000000, that one is important too.