>I'm revamping my laboratory formerly used as a slide-projector laboratoryI know of two options that don't involve building custom hardware/software.
>that was suitable for running groups of up to 8 subjects at a time. I talked
>to you about this plan a couple of years ago: I plan to put in an LCD
>projector controlled by a Mac running under (guess what?) MATLAB. The
>implementation of this lab would go fairly easily but for one thing: I want
>to have some form of subject response boxes interfaced to the Mac, along
>with appropriate MATLAB functions to monitor the responses.
Option i) Buy the CMU button box and download Brian Stankiewicz's
MATLAB interface
files. See http://color.psych.ucsb.edu/psychtoolbox/questions.html#keyboard
for all the relevant pointers.
Option ii) Use a standard Mac game controller. We use the Gravis
GamePad (about $20)
which provides a joy stick and 4 buttons. You just install a little
init and each button
is read in as a key press. This one works for ADB bus, but I assume
there are similar products available for USB. Or maybe there is
a ADB card/adapter you can plug into USB Macs.
Anyone else know of good ways to do this? Or about availability of
USB game controllers?
DB