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Paul St George <paul@minument.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Can anybody help me?
> 
> I want to use a switch to do the same job as any one key on a Mac
> Keyboard. What do I need to make or buy to put between this switch and
> the keyboard or between the switch and the computer?
> 
> I am designing an art exhibition and I want people to input simple
> information (one key) into the computer without using the keyboard or a
> mouse.
> 
> If it is possible, I would like the key that is substituted to be the
> Shift key or the Option key.

Complicated - you need to design a gadget to send the right numerical
code down the ADB serial line.  You could maybe make a box for a Mac
keyboard allowing access to one key only.  Alternatively, you might try
taking a keyboard apart and connecting a lead to the pins for the shift
(or option) key, and running that to a remote switch.

It might be that a commercial product to help you do what you want
exists.  Maybe one of these multi-button mice could help?  It'd be
fairly easy to wire in a remote switch to one of those, I'd've thought,
and you can probably program that switch to be a shift (or option) key.

Rowland.

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