Hi Russell,

You can combine Seppo Tiainen's PIC design "GKOS" with the chordite
key platform --- see gkos.net and gkos.com.

As for keyboards on the gear shift lever, as a frequent urban
pedestrian let me say this: doesn't that sound like a bunch of
accidents waiting to happen? Accident in the sense unintended, not in
the sense unpredictable. In the heat of a drag race you might
reformat your hard drive. In the heat of instant messaging you might
reformat me.

John

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--- In chordite@yahoogroups.com, "rallen71366" <rallen71366@y...> wrote:
> I'm new to this group, and haven't had time yet to read all the past
> posts, so if this question has already been answered please just point
> me to the relevant posts. Thanks :)
>
> I'm sure everyone has seen the cars with navigational displays, GPS,
> etc... One thing I've noticed with people building car pc's is that
> they all have to hunt around like crazy for a small, back-lit keyboard
> (paying almost as much for the keyboard as for the pc), that doesn't
> take up a lot of space.
>
> Has anyone thought of building a version of the chordite as a shift
> knob? Maybe have a small marble inset on the side, being read by an
> off-the-shelf optical mouse. It would have to be setup so that you
> could work the shift without entering in keypresses. Maybe a slide
> switch?
>
> I haven't even had time to go over the complete PDF yet, but are there
> any plans to utilize the PIC microcontroller as an option to the
> Atmel? I have absolutely no knowledge of the Atmel series.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Russell