https://github.com/practicalarduino/VirtualUsbKeyboard

Use an Arduino to send HID (Human Interface Device) events to a host computer as if it were a keyboard
https://github.com/practicalarduino/VirtualUsbKeyboard

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Use an Arduino to send HID (Human Interface Device) events to a host computer as if it were a keyboard

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/practicalarduino/VirtualUsbKeyboard
• Owner: practicalarduino
• Created: 2009-06-01T05:48:19.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2009-06-20T04:20:57.000Z (over 15 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-03T18:15:57.023Z (5 months ago)
• Homepage: http://www.practicalarduino.com/projects/easy/virtual-usb-keyboard
• Size: 86.9 KB
• Stars: 126
• Watchers: 14
• Forks: 18
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README

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README

        
Virtual USB Keyboard

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Copyright 2009 Jonathan Oxer

Copyright 2009 Hugh Blemings

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| This project is featured in the book "Practical Arduino" by         |

| Jonathan Oxer and Hugh Blemings (Apress, 2009). More information    |

| about the book and this project is available at:                    |

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| www.practicalarduino.com/projects/easy/virtual-usb-keyboard         |

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Communicating with a host computer can allow a simple Arduino-based

system to gain access to a wide variety of devices and information. Most

people link an Arduino to a host using serial communications across a

USB connection with custom code running on the host to send information

to the Arduino or receive it in return, but giving your Arduino the

ability to pretend to be a keyboard or mouse opens up a whole world of

possibilities because it means your Arduino can interact with software

that was never intended for external control. That could be desktop

software such as a game or a web browser: your Arduino could "type" into

a web form and submit it on your behalf, or act as a custom controller

for a game!

Or you could use an Arduino to connect a custom input device to your

computer so that it emulates a regular keyboard or joystick. The custom

input device could be a chording keyboard, a virtual keyboard, or even

something like a virtual reality glove or head tracking system

controlling your pointer by emulating a joystick.