Capture remote information into computer

Mar 10, 2007 4 Replies

Hi all, I was wondering about the possibility of capturing information triggered by external switches into a computer. My primary programming language is C#.



What I would like is to have 1 or more buttons which can be pressed (One or more buttons can be pressed at the same time) and I would like to record which button has been pressed and how many times the button has been pressed.



Obviously this would involve some hardware (USB connection????) / software interaction so any pointers on where to start with connecting a series of buttons to a computer and reading the buttons would be appreciated!


Thanks for any / all help Markus



This may be of help:

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martin

Depending on the number of switches you need, you may want to check out this article by Eric Gunnerson:

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Regards, Gilles.

Thanks everyone! Regards Markus

What you are describing is called a keyboard :)

If you want something other than the keyboard, you could try the joystick socket which has 8 inputs, 4 of them are configured for ordinary mometary switches.

Bye. Jasen

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