Best thing to use to keep a button pressed down on keyboard?

Spinal2k2 · 2 May 2009 at 21:26

the homer simpson device he makes in one episode to keep tapping a button - but weigh it down. Dont blame me if you blow up the nucular power plant

LewisStuart · 2 May 2009 at 21:36

AA battery & sellotape

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Works

CaptainComedy · 2 May 2009 at 21:40

sticky keys? doesnt windows come with it?

Inazuma · 2 May 2009 at 21:43

Shamikebab said:
A weight? Good god the spec me threads have reached a new low 'spec me something to hold a key down'

HERE IS A CLUE, SOMETHING HEAVY

Have you tried to do this before? It's actually quite difficult to find something small and heavy enough to hold down a key

Ghosteh · 2 May 2009 at 21:49

Blue tack, Just pop the key off, put some blue tack around where the key sits, then press the key down again, it should stick into the blue tack, and keep pressed down.

People do seem to lack initiative on this forum

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whitecrook · 2 May 2009 at 21:50

i used to use a brass 3 wise monkeys to keep key 4 pressed on my spectrum +3, as this was the accelerate button in Outrun. I think that was about 1987 and I haven't needed to ever keep a key pressed down since...

tomoW1 · 2 May 2009 at 22:09

"The bird! It's drinking the water!"

Obviously what you want to do is take apart your laptop and solder the 2 connectors for that key together so that they are always activated.

ordinaryjoe · 2 May 2009 at 22:40

Golly gosh its not that hard... within about 20 seconds with a stapler and an eraser, i managed to balance it to press down a key. just look around and see what you can balance

^TANK^ · 2 May 2009 at 22:43

Use your willy!

This Side Up · 2 May 2009 at 22:48

beat up and use a smaller sibling to hold down the key.

threten them with deportation if they refuse.

I get around · 2 May 2009 at 22:49

You can't weight a key you've got to wedge it with bluetack, save yourself the half hour i wasted discovering this.

LukeTW · 2 May 2009 at 22:51

Get a biro penlid and wedge it between the key, should do it (ive done it before

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yhack · 2 May 2009 at 22:52

+1 for autoit

Raumarik · 2 May 2009 at 23:25

http://www.my-spot.info/burton/programs/keypresser.html

Been using it for years for various daft things, works a treat.

TerryWogan · 2 May 2009 at 23:33

Kami said:
http://www.my-spot.info/burton/programs/keypresser.html

Been using it for years for various daft things, works a treat.

That's seriously useful, but I can't for the life of me think of anything I could use it for right now. I'm downloading it anyway.

DanTheMan · 3 May 2009 at 00:14

Haha, loving some of the replies. It was for an online game which included a lot of grinding. Was going out and wanted to finish it off before I came back, I ended up plugging in a usb keyboard and doing the blu tac trick.

Sh3rlock · 3 May 2009 at 00:18

BigglesPiP · 3 May 2009 at 00:22

Kami said:
http://www.my-spot.info/burton/programs/keypresser.html

Been using it for years for various daft things, works a treat.

And source code too! w00t.

MikeHunt79 · 3 May 2009 at 00:29

You need that bird thing that Homer used on the simpsons when he worked from home!

J.B · 3 May 2009 at 00:46

well that was fun, the selection of coings on my desk came in handy. interestingly it takes a fair few to push it down, but not as many to stop it from coming back up.