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[29 Nov 2008 | Author: 0xC0FF33 | 5 Comments | ]

Inspired by a post in the Hak.5 Forum, I decided to build something related, but on another port on the computer.
Many of us have old computers and old computers have PS/2 ports for keyboard and mouse, but modern input devices are running over USB and so the old ports are unused. But why should we leave something unused, that could power our USB devices?
What do we need?

A PS/2 to USB Adapter
A small screwdriver

Okay, let’s begin…

In our adapter we have 6 pins on the PS/2 side.
Pin 3 (Ground GND) and …