[PD] Simple midi controller for installation

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Tue Aug 28 18:12:13 CEST 2007


On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, David Merrill wrote:

> A hacked USB keyboard makes a nice button-bank, and you can typically 
> strip away most of its size, leaving just a little circuit board with 
> wires coming out to your buttons. You can read the button-presses with 
> Hans's [hid] object.
> here's one that we did some time ago...
> http://www.instructables.com/id/EDH81H8H62EQZJIDV8/

Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather try to hack the driver or the cable 
(e.g. using PS2-to-serial converters) rather than open the keyboard's 
case. With those solutions, it doesn't take more effort to support more 
buttons.

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