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It strikes me that a Chordite would be great for a tablet PC. Sometimes there is no real substitute for typing. If you're really ambitious, you could hold the...
bobw75024
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Jun 6, 2004
3:56 pm
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Darn right. I often pretend my desktop is a tablet PC. Although it's harder, sometimes I even pretend it's a full-color, see-through, head-up,...
John McKown
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Jun 6, 2004
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It strikes me that a safe mode would prevent accidental keystrokes while the Chordite was in a pocket. One could use the computer with the keyboard plugged in....
bobw75024
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Jun 9, 2004
7:16 pm
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Of course you're right: any real pocket keyboard needs something like that. The prototypes don't have a safe mode. They're very unsafe ;-). Fortunately...
John McKown
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Jun 10, 2004
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... like ... I'm sorry. I've been reading your website and lurking on this group since the NYTimes article. I have the funny feeling that this problem needs...
bobw75024
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Jun 11, 2004
3:19 am
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... It seems to me no one should apologize to old men. They're usually way ahead on sin, error and folly :-) It's got to fit acurately, within millimeters so,...
John McKown
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Jun 11, 2004
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... I'm not apologizing. I'm just trying to be polite. You have much more invested in time, thought, and so on in this than I do. ... There remains the problem...
bobw75024
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Jun 12, 2004
7:47 pm
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Well, I think switch placement per se is well taken care of in "place the center of the key contact area over the center of the (relaxed) phalanx." However...
John McKown
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Jun 14, 2004
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... in "place ... OK....
bobw75024
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I don't like straps for wearable keyboards. You can't just dedicate one whole hand exclusively for typing so you'd be constantly strapping and unstrapping. ...
John McKown
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Jun 25, 2004
9:29 pm
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I've uploaded some photos of a partially constructed new design to the photos section of this news group. It has the usual kingpin bolt and spacers but the...
John McKown
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Jul 3, 2004
7:42 pm
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I've posted two more pictures of my new design, trying to make clear how the adjustment works. Again the wiring is not yet in place. IMHO it's rather slick...
John McKown
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Jul 13, 2004
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I've put a zip file with lots of pictures of the new design on chordite.com, accessible via the latest entry on the news page: http://chordite.com/news.htm...
John McKown
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Aug 5, 2004
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... (relaxed) ... somehow to ... that ... points on ... adequate ... To reply at this blob-idea; Me and a friend of mine are going to try constructing the...
moonlord_ww
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Aug 6, 2004
12:46 am
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Sounds super to me Rik. You guys are a little more sophisticated than I am in materials and techniques. It really does need USB but I'm too lazy. Please keep...
John McKown
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Aug 6, 2004
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BTW I had an error on that new license page such that if you clicked on the top line of the agree/download you went to the wrong place but if you clicked on...
John McKown
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Aug 6, 2004
4:22 am
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Thanks, At the moment it's only in oure heads, but in about a week or two we will be able to get the needed parts, so the real constructing can begin. In the...
moonlord_ww
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Aug 6, 2004
6:07 am
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I am going to try and build my first keyboard. I was thinking i would buy my parts from Mouser.com rather than digikey because they seem to have better prices...
Norrris
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Aug 9, 2004
4:17 am
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Sure, Mouser is swell. I hadn't been to mouser.com in a long time and it's very nice now although browsing via .pdf gets out of control after a while in my...
John McKown
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Aug 9, 2004
2:59 pm
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It looks like Mouser Part #: 571-1034148 would work as the header, should you decide to connectorize. I don't find any keyboard extension cables at Mouser. If...
John McKown
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Aug 9, 2004
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Slashdot had an article yesterday [1] on the Alphagrip [2], which is to be held in both hands like a game controller. In fact it is a game controller along...
John McKown
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Aug 10, 2004
6:37 pm
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I have 4 extra printed circuit boards left over from the previous (mouseless) generation of prototypes as described in keyboard.zip. I'd like to give them...
John McKown
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Aug 28, 2004
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Seppo's websites gkos.com and gkos.net are looking very nice these days. At them Seppo provides free PIC software and circuit designs for a six-key chording...
John McKown
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Aug 28, 2004
8:16 pm
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All 4 boards have now been claimed --- thanks everyone....
John McKown
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Aug 29, 2004
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I've been considering how much work it would be to make a USB chording keyboard (one that plugs directly into a USB port instead of using a ps2/usb converter...
John McKown
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Sep 14, 2004
7:31 pm
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I got a thoughtful little note today from Digi-Key saying Atmel has declared my favorite chip obsolete and wants the world to use the ATTiny2313 instead. A...
John McKown
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Sep 28, 2004
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I have the feeling there are now automated ways to post spam in unmoderated Yahoo news groups and that spam is going to increase dramatically. This will annoy...
John McKown
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Oct 30, 2004
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Heya does anyone have the trace layout (pcb pattern) for the most resent code release? I've got all the parts I am just in need of a board now....
jaden_bane
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Dec 6, 2004
4:07 am
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As far as I know there isn't such a board. I never got around to it and I expect nobody else did either. What I did is use the old board gluing parts and...
John McKown
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Dec 6, 2004
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I've been fooling around with the open source program "pcb" under Linux and have layed out a board for the latest keyboard+mouse design as found in the current...
John McKown
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