I don't think you'll find an off the shelf cable for doing that. Most of them look like network devices to each of the computers. Can't the teacher just take a floppy or a cd, or a USB Storage device?
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > Some of the kids at my son's school use a device called an > AlphaSmart to upload their homework and answers to tests > into the teacher's computer. > > This device is a keyboard with a 10x40char LCD display and > editor and enough memory to store a few pages of ascii text > files. It appears as a USB keyboard to the host computer. > The kid plugs in the USB cable, fires up the editor on the > host computer and hits "send" on the device, whereupon text > starts filling up the screen on the host computer. You can > also just use the device as a USB keyboard. > > Since these devices are about $400, they're more expensive > than a used laptop. Is it possible to use a laptop as a USB > keyboard? I assume I'd need a USB bridge cable as the > transport level. However at some higher level (don't know > what it's called) the laptop thinks it's managing a USB host > controller, rather than being a USB keyboard. > > Is it possible to have the laptop function as a USB > keyboard? > > Thanks Joe > > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
