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Hi all, I'm obviously newly registered here, but have been lurking around for a while owing to a casual ongoing interest in many things ZX related.

I'm logging in for the first time was to extend a big thanks for all the assistance this forum has helped provide in pursuit of a project I've been working on for a shortish while now; the AZ15 a not exactly ZX81 inspired thingy with a Raspberry Pi and Arduino at its core, you can read about it here http://zx81keyboardadventure.blogspot.com.au/.

I know from reading up here, many of you guys make and or source some the parts I used (and send them of to unknown locations and uses) to create the AZ15, and also write the emulators that got that bit of if up and running. Anyways thanks etc.
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Welcome to the forums, David - the AZ15 certainly builds nicely on the ZX81 inspiration - is that one of Pokemon's keyboards?
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Looks nice ! 8-)
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Good looking, some serious work. Well done!
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Glad you all like the results. The ZX81 was my first computer and has pretty good memories, so I wanted to do it justice but not copy it as such. I was after a good looking clone kind of feel.

It is a PokeMon (thanks for that, it's a very nice bit of work on its own) keyboard, it made that part of the project much simpler. I had thought I'd need to make my own keyboard at first, as I didn't strictly desire a membrane keyboard (from past experience). Certainly saved a lot of time which I needed to write the Arduino code and design the rest of the case.
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Welcome on board David!

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