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Subject: Re: FreeBSD as USB joystick
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On Friday 22 May 2009 01:05:57 pm Warren Block wrote:

> Seems like it'd be less work to have the FreeBSD system close the
> switches of a real USB joystick.

Think so? I had an Arduino writing messages to my kids on a 7-segment display 
in about an hour.  I would think that finding the right USB codes would be 
reasonably do-able.