nanozer2 Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 hi I want to do by myselft this gadget "stealthswitch.com" but i dont know where to find some information about how to put the switch whit the usb and how to do the program to control the windows whit it. Can someone help me? :shock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Thats stupedously uselessly cool. No idea what i'd use it for though. The hardware part of it would be fairly simple, just somekinda switch, anything game paddish would do trick. The software is a bit more complex though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentinel Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 search for boss key software. There should be a few free ones out there. As for hardware, you could either adapt a gamepad or keyboard, but one of them will work - depending on the software and how you do it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanozer2 Posted September 24, 2006 Author Share Posted September 24, 2006 the problen is that i dont know how to put a switch in the usb cable and the other is that how the software detects the switch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 Id just use a gamepad that has a macro function Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rFayjW98ciLoNQLDZmFRKD Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 -Get linux -Ctrl+Alt+left arrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentinel Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 the problen is that i dont know how to put a switch in the usb cable and the other is that how the software detects the switch *sigh* That's the whole point of what we're saying. Don't make it all yourself, take a usb keyboard or usb game pad and just use that. For example, if the software requires that you press the F10 key to hide everything, then take a keyboard, attach a foot pedal of some sort (or a ping pong ball - it doesn't matter, just something easy to press) to the F10 key and cut off, hide, or otherwise remove all of the other keys. Because it's USB it can be used in conjunction with your main keyboard. If you have a USB gamepad you'd rather use, then let us know what it is and we can try to get it to work with the software. With some creative hardware and/or registry hacking you can make a much more elegant version, but that's up to you to be creative and experiment a bit based on your needs, means, and skills - we can't spoonfeed everything. Have fun with it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyrancher82 Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 -Get linux -Ctrl+Alt+left arrow Good one. Employee: "I need to install Linux." Employer: "Why? What is Linux?" Employee: "Because I can then Ctrl+Alt+Left Arrrow!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 I've made similar tools before when I was back in college, they're not hard to make/find... Then all you'd need to do is set it to use a hotkey and plug in a hcked up USB keyboard... A USB game controller would also work as was mentioned... I did actually consider that a mouse might be more elegant since it's smaller and you only have 2 buttons to worry about (hide/show perhaps?)... the downside is that in Windows I don't think you can identify which mouse sent the button press so you'd have to find a way to make Windows distinguish which I believe is very hard... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanozer2 Posted September 25, 2006 Author Share Posted September 25, 2006 *sigh* That's the whole point of what we're saying. Don't make it all yourself, take a usb keyboard or usb game pad and just use that. but i want to do it myselft if some one have a page that explain how works the usb cable and how it send the data please send it to me. i think i need a pic or something but please the idea is not use a keyboard ord game pad thanks to all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 You need a IC to take the input from your switch and communicate it to the computer. You then need to create some drivers for windows so it knows what to do with its new appendage. http://developer.intel.com/technology/usb/...ad/ehci-r10.pdf http://www.diylive.net/index.php/2005/12/1...-for-the-diyer/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silva Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 *sigh* That's the whole point of what we're saying. Don't make it all yourself, take a usb keyboard or usb game pad and just use that. but i want to do it myselft if some one have a page that explain how works the usb cable and how it send the data please send it to me. i think i need a pic or something but please the idea is not use a keyboard ord game pad thanks to all Be sure to post how you did it if you succsed( I strongly doubt it though). Writing a driver for windows can be annoying(I never tried, but all the doc's I read about it were to long for me ). I'd do what everyone suggested and just get an old gamepad which you bought 5 years ago because you thought it was cool but never got around to using it, take it all apart, build a small box for it with a button on top and make it "press" one button on the gamepad, use some registery hacks to remap that button to run some software or something(maybe the "Show desktop" thing in windows?) and you're done. Alot easier if you ask me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
core-dump Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 I have to agree with the posters above; utilizing existing hardware is defiantly the way to go. If you want to do something "creative", you can buy a relatively cheap miniature laptop wireless mouse. These mice are usually smaller then game controllers, and their contents tend to be project-box friendly. Such devices work on batteries, and replacing them once in a few months can get tedious. Keep in mind that some mice support rechargeable batteries. This feature will allow you to recharge your "foot-pedal"-like device when it's not used, thus eliminating the "problem" described above. As far as the software part's concerned, if you're going to be using this little gadget on anything that's [>= WinXP], you're in luck – it's actually very easy to read raw input from HIDs.This is rather convenient because you will not have to bother with writing a device driver - a relatively simple Win32 application is all that's required to get this to work. In case you're wondering how your application can distinguish between device-events: Windows allows you to enumerate such devices. This means that each recognizable HID has a unique handle which can be used as a filter when you handle the WM_INPUT notification in your message handler. I hope that this was helpful. =) P.S. Please excuse any grammatical errors, English isn't my first language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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