eMate 300 Resurrection 

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My next little abomination is an undead Apple eMate 300 resurrected with a Raspberry Pi CM4 and spare parts from old projects.

I replaced the original LCD display with a Raspberry Pi Touch Display. I'm not keen on the borders around the display, but it works.

Booting the RPi
Booting the RPi
Testing my Soarer's Controller matrix
Testing my Soarer's Controller matrix
8-pin and 16-pin FPC connections to the Teensy 2.0 running Soarer's
8-pin and 16-pin FPC connections to the Teensy 2.0 running Soarer's

I built a keyboard adapter using a Teensy 2.0 microcontroller running custom matrix mapping with Soarer's Controller firmware. If you're looking to decode an eMate keyboard matrix, try sense on the keyboard's 8-pin connector and use strobe for the remaining 16-pin connector. Below is my keyboard matrix for reference:

This article was updated on 26 February 2023 00:07-0500