and second question could I use such a thing to make a custom arcade stick?
What did vinny use to make that button during extralife?
I'm pretty sure he hacked one of those "Easy" buttons from Staples. Maybe some arduino wizardry was involved?
@thunderslash: yeah not the easy button the thing he wired it into to make it a usb device. i think he said it mimics a keyboard.
@devil240z: Wasn't it just the little board of a keyboard? Not sure why you'd need something special. Just get the connections of the button to run into the keyboard controller, making it act like a single key input.
@devil240z: I thought he had used just a standard keyboard controller, but it looks like he probably used a versatile controller as shown in this Inscrutible: http://www.instructables.com/id/USB-Easy-Button/
@devil240z: My bad I misread your question.
@truthtellah: I think he used this one http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-Staples-Easy-Button-tm-Control-your-compu/ because they updated the inside of it.
@daze: Unfortunately, your link doesn't go anywhere. Though, I could believe that it was a different one.
@truthtellah: Words fine for me.
@truthtellah: Words fine for me.
heh. He fixed the link. It was just going to http:// initially. (and that does look more like what Vinny made)
He used a Teensy if that is what you are asking.
A Teensy is essentially a very small Arduino. They cost around $13 and is about the size of a stick of gum. Pretty much any code you find for Arduino projects can be loaded on a Teensy.
Some of the cooler things it can do that the Arduino doesn't do natively is that it can emulate a keyboard, mouse, or Joystick. This is most likely what their code is doing. When an input pin is pulled low, it types something into a web form they made.
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