Type4me USB keyboard emulator automates passwords
Bored of always typing in the same password over and over again? Luca designed a board to tackle just that problem. It’s a USB composite device, featuring both a USB keyboard emulator and a serial port. You program the letter sequence for the keyboard to type via the serial port, then press a button on the board to output the word from the USB keyboard emulator.
This entry was posted in PIC, project logs and tagged keyboard, PIC18F14K50, serial, USB.Today’s project was designed to solve the need to enter, using a keyboard, the same sequence of characters (a password, a greeting…) many times.
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Would it not just have been easier to use a software program like KeePass (FOSS) http://keepass.info/ or Roboform, etc. ?
Hi Sleepwalker3,
the advantage of a physical device that enumerates as an USB keyboard is that it works even when copy&paste is disabled, when the software doesn’t accept “paste” (MAME-emulated games for example like in my demo), when you need to enter BIOS password…
Hmm, OK. I guess it could also be used at startup to enter the initial password for a system too. Now you just need to convert it to SMD and shrink it so it can be like a USB key that you plug in :)
good idea! ;)
So this is a bigger, more complicated version of:
http://codeandlife.com/2012/03/03/diy-usb-password-generator/
Hi Luca,
We have a need to set up the bios on a large number of PCs and I would like to find a way to automate it. Could this be used to emulate any keyboard key stroke (up arrow, down arrow etc..) or will it only execute text keys for passwords?
Hi! Yes it can emulate any keyboard key, for example the arrows used in the video for playing with Street Fighter. Write me for any questions…