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> Simply open a text editor on your target PC (eg notepad, edit, vi), then hold HIDman's power button for a few seconds. The menu will be typed out into your te
by landgenoot 2y ago
> Simply open a text editor on your target PC (eg notepad, edit, vi), then hold HIDman's power button for a few seconds. The menu will be typed out into your text editor.
That's very cool and clever.
- actionfromafar 2y agoThat's mindblowing to me. Reclaiming the serial terminal in a USB way.
- actionfromafar 2y agoIt could have modes for Notepad, vim, and plain vt100 compatible :-) It alao makes for a really cool out of band communication path. Pondering what this coupled with WiFi could do.
- alfanick 2y agoI vaguely remember playing with some physical keylogger (ps/2?) back in early 2000s that had similar feature - to configure it you enter some magic key sequence then it „typed” the menu and you execute some configuration commands via typing on a keyboard.
- hakfoo 2y agoI saw that on a super-deluxe early PS/2 to USB converter (PI Engineering Y-Mouse)
- hbossy 2y agoI did something similar using Raspberry Pi 2040 - it pretends to be a USB keyboard, opens browser using 0xf0 key, types in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ and press play after connecting to the PC. https://github.com/EddieTheHead/RPIPicoRickRoll https://github.com/EddieTheHead/RPIPicoRickRoll
- freedomben 2y agoI'm guessing this was killed because of the rick roll (heads up in case you click the youtube link before reading the repo name, the youtube link above is a rickroll) but I vouched for it because the linked github repo is genuinely very interesting. Thanks for sharing!