[KwartzLab] Buzzcard

[Karl Williams]

Cool. Did you open it up to see which microcontroller they're using. I've
built similar HID devices with the Microchip PIC2250 with built in USB
2.0.

> I just received an http://www.Buzzcard.com from Computer Associates. It's
> a credit card with a USB plug. Thinking it was a storage device that I
> might be able to co-opt for another purpose I put it in my Linux desktop.
> It typed a string of numbers into the shell I was in! This isn't a storage
> device. It registers as a keyboard device and actually types into your
> computer.
>
> We scrounged up a Windows PC here and opened the Run dialog and launched
> the URL above. We tried it in Mac OS X and it launched a browser and
> filled in the URL.
> I'm curious to know more about this. Anyone else interested in playing
> with this?
>
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