Can I use a second keyboard to generate particular keystrokes?

Question

The solution may be otherwise, but the question itself is quite simple: Is there anything (software, a relatively easy way to develop it, or anything) that can allow me to plug a second USB keyboard and assign specific keystrokes to it?

By the way, my goal is to have some kind of a "buttons panel" for Microsoft Flight Simulator for really cheap.

Note: I've already seen those posts:

• Changing the keystrokes of a USB keyboard
• Why can't I use two or more keyboards/mice at the same time on one computer?

But if they are quite interesting, there aren’t any proposed solutions. It would seem crazy to me that with everything we can do in one click with a computer nowadays, we could not use a second keyboard?

Answer 1

Well, I finally found a solution: HID Macros. Though it's closed source, it is freeware, and it appears to do exactly what I want.