TICKET STUB DISPLAY
I am displaying my ticket stubs as shown above. The cool thing about this is the button in the lower right hand corner. The button is wired into my computer, and when you press the button for a certain show, that show's bootleg will begin to play. The hard part is going to be keeping the wires organized.
How is this done?
I wrote software to look for input from a keyboard, and then based on a config file, play the playlist associated with that letter. I did not take much time to write this, so it's nothing fancy, or clean, but it does work for me.
Download the Source
The src is for windows, but with a few changes it should run under something else. In order for this to work, you need Winamp and AutoIt.
If you get everything going, you should be able to change playlists by selecting a letter from the keyboard corresponding to whatever you put in the config file. This is fun but having to find a keyboard everytime you want to change playlists sucks, so next we'll interface buttons to the ps2 keyboard port. I think what I did should work for all keyboards, but I just ripped apart one of mine to figure this out, so you are on your own if mine was not standard. The way a keyboard works is like this. There are 20something contacts on the keyboard controller board. Everytime you push a key, it shorts out 2 of them. So on mine when pins 4 and 19 get shorted out, an 'a' will appear on the screen. You can follow the traces inside your keyboard to figure out how it works, and what letters map to which pins. So my wires go from pins 4 and 19 to my switch, when the switch is pushed, an 'a' is sent as a keyboard input, my app will see this, and then look for the correct playlist. With this I should be able to support around 200 different shows without thinking too hard.
