"The proCONTROLL library allows Processing to communicate with controll devices like joysticks, joypads but also keyboards and mice." It works quite nicely.

If you are searching for a reliable (show) control network solution,
the Kiss-Box line of data communication products is the answer.
Why should one bother to connect different appliances each on its
own infrastucture, when there is an easy solution?

Connect it all to one structure: the network.

That awkward moment when you’re a brainwashed minion and your affection-starved evil master keeps wanting to cuddle.

"If these researchers were able to look at it this way -- as the control of perception -- I think there would be a couple of things they could try that might improve things. One place to look for possible improvements is in the display of what the robot is doing: perhaps add lines and arrows of varying length and size indicating the states of the perceptual aspects of the robot's behavior that are influenced by the variations in neural firing rates."

Netdisco is an Open Source web-based network management tool first released publically in 2003. The target users are large corporate and university networks administrators. Data is collected into a Postgres database using SNMP and presented with a clean web interface using Mason.