I recently came across these articles describing an implementation of one or more 4017 decade counter ICs used to implement a keyboard matrix. Connect a 4×3 matrix keyboard to a microcontroller using two I/O pins - EDN Click here to download a PDF Matrix keyboards are commonas an input …

4017 IC switch matrix controller and library. Up to 100 switches with 3 pins!

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