README

pikeyd 1.0 (Jan 2013)
The Universal Raspberry Pi GPIO keyboard daemon.
Copyright (C) 2013 Michael Moller.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This daemon uses less than 1% of the RPi CPU.
It polls and debounces the configured GPIO inputs,
and emits uinput events to simulate the keyboard.
Each GPIO contact can emit a sequence of keyboard characters.
Configuration is stored in either ~/.pikeyd.conf or /etc/pikeyd.conf

Usage: pikeyd [option]
Options:
  -d    run as daemon
  -k    try to terminate running daemon
  -v    version
  -h    this help

Install notes.
If you're using Raspbian wheezy add the folowing to /etc/modules:
uinput
i2c-dev

edit /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf
and remove or comment out
#blacklist i2c-bcm2708