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We used an Ontrak USB Relay box in a recent exhibit... their somewhat 
mind-numbing product page is here:

http://www.ontrak.net/products.htm

We're using it exclusively in the opposite direction -- we wanted the 
computer to control switches, not switches to control the computer! 
-- so I can't vouch for it as an input device.  It works fine for our 
needs, though.

Ontrak also doesn't advertise MacOS compatibility (although I'm sure 
a competent hacker could get it working); I'm happy to see that 
Lath's suggestion does.

--Allan Ayres


At 3:13 AM +1000 8/10/06, Glen Moore wrote:
>Does anyone have a source for a device to replace a computer 
>keyboard with buttons?
>
>We only need to emulate 6 keys max.
>
>Not sure what it is called, so it is difficult to google.

-- 
~~

Allan Ayres
Exhibit Developer
Lawrence Hall of Science
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-5200
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510-642-1254

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