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Re: [microsound] OT- HW: one keypad controlling 2 computers over usb?

Simple enough indeed! :)
hehehe
Just to add to this interesting suggestion:
If you are going to try this you will want to buy two shitty "quiet" keyboards (like the kind that cost 10 bucks) as they are the easiest and most simple of designs. You can basically pull a rubber matt out of one and set it on top of the other and see what happens. :) I doubt it will work without a lot more effort, but hey it's worth a try right? :)

On another note, there used to be software for Winnt and Irix that passed mouse and keyboard data through the network and it worked as though it were physically connected. I mention this because it's the most likely way to acheive want you want. The hardware wasn't designed for what you are asking so in turn neither was the software. Duplicating and transmitting keystrokes over the network would be the easiest way to go and thanks to Max or PD it's incredibly easy to do (especially if you are already operating within that environment). If you are familiar with c/c++ it wouldn't take much more effort to pass a char to another machine.

What platform are you working under?

_chip


On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:07:18 -0500, Tim Opie <t.opie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you do actually need an identical physical keystroke sent, another option
would be to pull the pressure sensor mat and wires out of one keyboard and lay
them over the top of the other pressure sensor mat in the other keyboard, so
one keystroke will create two independant keystrokes. I haven't tried this, but it
seems like a simple enough operation :)

---- Original message ----
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 14:26:00 +0200
From: derek holzer <derek@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [microsound] OT- HW: one keypad controlling 2 computers over
usb? 
To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

May I ask what exactly you need to accomplish by this? It seems that
maybe youâve worked yourself into a box. Is it possible to use something
like MIDI, OSC, SSH or even VNC/remote desktop to control the two
machines (one directly, one remotely)? Then you would set up something
more like a host/client relationship. But it depends on what your end
result should be. There was just a big thread on the PD list about
forwarding keystrokes, and it was determined that PD was not the tool to
do it exactly that way, but that you might be able to accomplish the
same result in a totally different manner than using actual keystrokes.
  Fill us in and maybe we can help.

d.


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