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| garnerb350:
Hahaha....Friend of mine gave me a junk (working) Dell keyboard...I think I am going to try to hack it....anybody have any good info for me before I start? My control panel is an x-arcade tankstick... I aready have a keyboard but I want to keep it hid unless I need it...I figured with the hack one I can hook it up and run it to a couple of pushbuttons and have one for pause and other for F2 or tab... ( trying to make it uber-user-friendly) Doing a simple 2 button keyboard hack should be perfect for hacking a keyboard the first time... |
| thecheat:
Doesn't the TankStick already have a keyboard controller in it? This one? http://www.xgaming.com/byoarcade.shtml |
| garnerb350:
I think it does....BUT I dont think that it has every key on it....(certain keys)....and yeah you can program it to do other keystrokes, but the way i have my mounted on my cab, its hard to access... I want to hack a keyboard, just to say i did it... With my current setup....is it possible... x-arcade tankstick is on top... underneath i have a keyboard on a tray.... I could take the hack keyboard and run it to 2 pushbuttons on my cab door underneath the keyboard tray....and I can have the keyboard tray locked so other people cant mess with it....( my wife is too scared to touch it )....I want it to where my cab is easy to operate.... Since Saint disabled attachments....here is a past post i did where you can see my cab.... http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=90308.0 |
| Level42:
I thought keyboard hacks were a thing of the past :) I just happen to read this thread about a kb hack: http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=787.0 I would be much too lazy to do that and get one of the various interfaces. bit it _is_ cheap. |
| thecheat:
Agreed. I usually have more time than money, which is saying a lot since I don't have any time! :) I thought about doing the keyboard hack and put about an hour's time into it before I realized that it would be better, cheaper, and more reliable to just buy an I-PAC and be done with it. My main stumbling block was that I was using a USB-only laptop and the 6 key limit of USB keyboards. I suppose I could have maybe done two USB keyboards but it was getting out of control at that point. I just gave up and ordered the I-PAC the next day. |
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