just a small hint to prevent problems I experienced in the past. when you hack a keyboard for installations, I recommend not to use keys which interrupt the start process (c, s, return or the system runtime). if people have buttons in installation they will not stop pressing them during a restart of the machine... marius. David Merrill wrote: > Hi Stuart - > 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/ > -David M. > > On 8/28/07, *Stuart Jones* <s.jones@csm.arts.ac.uk > <mailto:s.jones@csm.arts.ac.uk>> wrote: > > Hi > > I'm helping with an installation which will have 12-16 buttons > (on/off) to > set off events in Pd and need to find a simple midi controller to > just send > note on and note off messages on 12-16 notes to do that. I could > hack a midi > keyboard but that would be a complicated and bulky solution given > the size > of the installation. Any suggestions? > > Thanks > > Stuart > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at <mailto:PD-list@iem.at> mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > > -- > MIT Media Lab > dmerrill@media.mit.edu <mailto:dmerrill@media.mit.edu> > http://web.media.mit.edu/~dmerrill/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list