Using USB keyboard with arudion (no sheild)

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I hooked up a female USB port to my Arduino, without any shields. I'm not sure where the usb's data+ and - would go, so I didn't do anything permanent there. I want to be able to plug in a keyboard my arduino. Is there anyway i could use a keyboard with it? Ive tried temporarily hooking up the two data pins to analog, and there doesn't seem to be any results.

EDIT: I haven't used the arduino for years, and one of the analog pins is giving me random numbers at around 25, when theres nothing plugged into it. Does this mean anything?

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The Uno is a USB slave.

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Does this mean anything?

It means that you are not too bright trying to read an analog pin with nothing connected to it.

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If you want to connect a USB keyboard to an Arduino UNO you will need a USB Host Shield or equivalent. The Arduino Leonardo and Arduino Micro have USB in the processor so you can probably use them to read a USB keyboard using some third-party software.

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thanks john. I figured out an alternative, just going to use my raspberry pi for the keyboard and hook it up to the arduino via serial.