One-button meeting call
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How fast and easily can you call for a video conference? This fancy arcade button can do that with a single press. The button is connected to a Mac-Mini and initiates a Zoom meeting automatically, when it is pressed. It uses the Digispark Attiny85 microcontroller board that emulates an USB keyboard that signals the MacOS about the button press.
One-button meeting call
The idea is simple, we use a really cheap micro controller and a fancy button (from an arcade mashine) and simulate an USB keyboard. This simulated Keyboard doesn’t need any special software driver because all operating systems automatically have drivers included and can use it.
When the button is pressed it will signal the operating system: “there was a button pressed”. Which button to use, can be configured inside this micro controller code.
Another software tool (e.g. Automator) is used to detect a button-press similar to a user pressing a special hot key and triggers a script which finally starts the Zoom client.
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