I would take a look at the Arduino microcontroller board - you can wire all sorts of things into that (buttons, sensors) and interface with it using the .NET Ports classes.
Mark B
2009-10-01 08:56:46
+2
A:
I have seen that site before. And although it sure has what I want, there is no specifik information about what I need for my problem. I dont want to learn everything about microcontrollers, just solve the one button problem. So if there are a place that describes how to use that microcontroller board to send info to computer when a button is pressed then its what I want. But thanks anyway.
Stefan
2009-10-01 09:30:57
+3
A:
Might be worth a look at Phidgets:
http://www.phidgets.com/index.php
They do many little USB I/O devices, and the code samples are there on the site too.
Kim Blackburn
2009-10-01 12:25:00
+1
A:
I'm looking for the same thing. this might do the trick:
Haven't tried it yet, but he has code to run a shell command or simulate a keypress and the source code is available if you need something different.
And for Linux: search freshmeat dot net for usb-panic-button-daemon project. (I'm a new user, and can't post more than one hyperlink!)
And another thing I just found is that Griffin makes an SDK available (at least they used to, I'm waiting for a reply) for their PowerMate knob to get it to simulate more than mostly just keypresses.
BTW I'm looking for USB buttons, but I could use serial too, come to think of it.
michael
2009-10-01 18:08:36