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Newbie needing help, please. How to make a basic USB input button

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IntruderAlert:
i'm guessing you won't have a boss for long if you use one of those

Juggernaut1:

--- Quote from: NY_in_TX on June 14, 2005, 04:38:38 pm ---http://www.stealthswitch.com/index.asp


they just had these on woot.com for $25. says it'll launch any app you want and is customizable.


maybe it'll work for what you need.
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richms:

--- Quote from: Juggernaut1 on June 14, 2005, 03:23:47 pm ---I would prefer that it was not just a gutted keyboard (as my wife will get upset if it does not have pretty clean look to it), but rather be a larger button that is more the size of something like what a dentist uses when he uses his foot operated drill, but could just be the standard size of an arcade-type button(hehe...what an example!).

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The circuitboard in most keyboards is very small, and just under where the LEDs are located, the rest of the keyboard is a flexable membrane you can throw away (once you have traced it out)

Put that in a nice box with a 6.5mm headphone plug on it, and you can get a pedel from a music shop that would normally connect to a synth for reverb or whatever (Check it is just a contact closure in it)

If you want multiple keys to be pressed, then put more then one socket on the pretty box you put the keyboard guts in, with each one wired across different pins which the membrane connected to

Juggernaut1:
Hi,

It would most likely work for my needs, but I am trying to learn how to make one for myself.

Is there any place I can go to learn what parts I need to build one myself?
Is there any place that could give me step by step directions on how to put it together and how to get the computer to recognize it?

I don't mean to be a nudge, but this is a project I am trying to work on.  If this is not the appropriate place to get the info, please let me know.

Thanks!
Juggernaut

forbiddenlyrics:
It seems to me like you are making this project too complicated. If you want to make a new USB device you will have to get a USB controller chip and then develop some custom circuity. Although the extra circuity won't be that complicated you will be able to get the same exact result for waay less money and waay less hassle if you just hack an exsisting USB device. I guess if you are hell bent on doing it the hard way you might want to check out the book "USB complete".

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