{"id":491,"date":"2007-04-15T16:50:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T20:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mini.local\/blog\/index.php?entry=entry070415-165035"},"modified":"2025-04-07T17:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:02:31","slug":"the-making-of-a-photo-booth-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"The making of a photo booth, part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To control the photo booth (i.e. the &#8220;shutter&#8221; button) I decided to use the I-Pac VE. It&#8217;s original intent was to use for another arcade cocktail table. It&#8217;s a small breadboard with two rows of screw terminals that sends a keystroke when the pins are grounded. It&#8217;s powered via USB and sends the events as &#8220;keyboard&#8221; strokes. I&#8217;ve wired a switch to the player 1 start button (sends a &#8220;1&#8221; key).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"153\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ipac_ve.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3079\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to make the application Photo Booth take a picture, I&#8217;ve had to modify the shortcut key of the &#8220;Take Photo&#8221; menu item. This is accomplished by using the developer tools (Interface Builder) to modify the .NIB file. Now whenever I press &#8220;1&#8221; on the keyboard or close the switch on the I-Pac, Photo Booth takes a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimarc.com\/ipacve.html\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To control the photo booth (i.e. the &#8220;shutter&#8221; button) I decided to use the I-Pac VE. It&#8217;s original intent was to use for another arcade cocktail table. It&#8217;s a small breadboard with two rows of screw terminals that sends a keystroke when the pins are grounded. It&#8217;s powered via USB and sends the events as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3080,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/3080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}