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Keyboard output to multiple PC''s with the stamp?

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edited 2003-04-03 21:39 in General Discussion
www.kronosrobotics.com has an app for interfacing their module to a
PC Keyboard-- you should be able to use their interface info.

I'd LOVE to see the CNC solution though. Think of all that lovely
movement! And the 'clicky-clicky' sound!


--- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "verygrimm2" <robots@t...> wrote:
> I'd like to be able to send keyboard output to 2 to 3 pc's using
one
> keyboard. Any ideas on the easiest way to accomplish this?
>
> Ideally, I could hook a keyboard to the stamp with a pak6
coprocessor
> and hook the stamp up serially to a pc. Using a vb program, I
could
> accept keystrokes through the stamp from the keyboard, and
depending
> on which button was pressed, send instructions back to the stamp to
> output a keystroke or a series of keystrokes (like a macro) to the
pc
> associated with that button.
>
> Any idea on the best way to send the keystrokes? Buy ir keyboards
> and immitate they keyboard ir output using the stamp? Indirectly
> interface with the pc's ps2 ports from the stamp? Use servos to
> press the buttons? :P Grab some stepper motors and build some
> sliders and make a 3 axis cnc-like hunt and peck machine? :P
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