[GTALUG] Hardware Hack - help needed

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 01:45:30PM -0400, William Park via talk wrote:
> It so happens that I may have to build something similar at work here.
> Right now, I have to press keys manually, and it's difficult to do any
> kind of automated testing.  I need an external USB device, acting as
> keyboard to the test machine that it's plugged into, but in reality
> accepting input from me remotely.
> 
> I'm thinking 
>     - simple forwarder between network port and usb port.
>     - ssh into the device and run program/script on command-line. :-)

Well something like a BeagleBone black should be able to run as a usb
keyboard in usb gadget mode, which you could then ssh to and send whatever
keyboard signals you want.

The hard part (which is fortunately not similar to what you want) is
reading the physical thinkpad keyboard.

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Len Sorensen