Take a look at http://www.u-hid.com - some nice stuff there.
That URL doesn’t resolve for me.
Oops! U-HID not U-HIDE. I corrected the URL
The site never tells you if you can program the thing. It ‘looks’ like a simple config that sets up a few inputs. Ok 50. And the order page is blocked as ‘games’. Who would tag their product order page as ‘games’? fail.
Anyway this is a nice device, and programming using Arduino IDE is extremely easy, and they have examples of HID use as well.
Teensy. $18.
motopic:
And the order page is blocked as ‘games’. Who would tag their product order page as ‘games’? fail.
They’re made and sold by Ultimarc, who also sells boards and equipment for building computer-based arcade machines.
Also, $79?! :shock:
The Teensy sounds great though, have you used it, motopic? Any gotchas?
I really like the Teensy. Up and running in five minutes. Simple, readable documentation, a product that works exactly as advertised, and cheap to boot.
What’s not to like 
Applekid:
motopic:
And the order page is blocked as ‘games’. Who would tag their product order page as ‘games’? fail.They’re made and sold by Ultimarc, who also sells boards and equipment for building computer-based arcade machines.
Sure I understand that aspect, but they should tag their order page as technical info or something, as most corpse-erations like to block games sites.
Also, $79?! :shock:
The Teensy sounds great though, have you used it, motopic? Any gotchas?
I am working with it actively to replace a pic4550 with usb and I am quite pleased. If it works out my parts count will go down by 12 pieces. It is small, direct and to the point. I am even using ArduinoIDE to learn and code, pretty nice. Our project would have been better starting with this, but I learned a lot in any case.
You will need a breadboard, pins, wires, etc…but the dev tools are free and open, and I will soon have a neat PCF8563 clock lib done too.
Be sure to look over the HID codes over on the site, and see if it works for your case.