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Re: Custom Buttons for drivers?

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Originally Posted by RyanCahoon View Post
We (1708) were looking for an easy solution to the same problem to implement during this week's DC regional. Here's what we came up with:

A USB num pad (example)
This software that allows mapping of keystrokes to a virtual joystick device.

Convenient 3x3 button pattern (with additional buttons for controlling grippers, etc). No wiring required. Optionally, add colored electrical tape and marker annotations to make it pretty.

--Ryan
Using the numpad was suggested by one of my team mates, just didnt want to deal with keypress events and didnt know how to in labview. I know how to do it all in C languages where i do C# for a living.
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