Well said, John. I think wearable computers will eventually be viewed in much the same way that we view the internet today - "How did we ever live without...
Greetings, all. I was introduced to chorded/chording keyboards many (12+) years ago when I saw the BAT keyboard at Comdex. I remember thinking what a great...
Microsoft Word has a tremendously powerful feature called "auto-correct". I don't think many people are aware of it beyond being pleasantly surprised when it...
Hi Donny, The forum style is probably preferable but moving old notes seems like a hassle. This isn't what you'd call a high volume group ;-) As for the thumb....
... Yes. You don't want to be juggling a lot of little gizmos from hand to hand. I usually think in terms of two: a (small) cell phone that snaps onto (the...
Autocorrect _is_ cool but it's maybe not for everyone. You really have to watch it. I need both "please don't hesitate" and Ph.D. Funny things can happen. ...
You're missing the point, Russ. While auto-correct is intended for correcting typos, the real power of it comes from by converting abbreviations (for commonly...
I'm very new to this whole "chord-based" keyboard thing (I'd never even heard of them until a few hours ago), but it seems to me that going wireless would be a...
Your instincts are right. If you click on Messages in the left frame and search on "wireless" you'll see what's been said here. It comes down to wireless...
... Quite true. Broadcom even has a chip designed for keyboards. I'm trying to find out if it can be used for chording as opposed to matrix keyboards. I...
... Thanks for the pointer. I see they actually have two, although the second one seems to be just an "advanced" variant of the first with on-board memory so...
... Newer one is lower power. It has an 8051 core, which I'm sure holds the code which generates keystrokes; if not the entire bluetooth stack. ... That only...
... ... The real problem is implementing the key down / key up counting. ================= Ahem. I rather liked my way, in kbm06.asm. If you have two ...
The subject of sequences, as opposed to chords, has been discussed here and elsewhere, the extreme case being Morse code which needs only one key. At...
I've posted some pics of my chordite at http://www.yargybot.com/WearablePC/Chordite/ I intend to do a fairly detailed write-up on it, but it's nearly 3am now...
... update: First page of the write-up is done. More to follow. The old page with the links to the other pic's is still available, but has been renamed. It's...
... Second page is now available. It's linked to from the foot of the first page (refresh/reload your browser if you still get the "[page not yet available..]"...
Awesome Toby and a nice writeup too. That's a handsome device. I've got to get me a piece of that deck track. Now, minimalist that I am, I'm wondering about...
... Thanks. Did you see the partial third page? I put it up just before turning in last night, but it's incomplete so I didn't bother posting to the mailing...
Nice idea Toby. Hopefully you've got a nice comfy cap for that joystick. If not I might have one that fits. BTW if you ever decide you want to do it I can...
... Thanks. ... Not so far. ... I'll see how I go without one for now. It hasn't bothered me so far and I can always use my trusty Dremel to round off the top ...
Toby my personal bias is against hardware inverters. Let us not hesitate to dorkle with the code. It takes 1 line to invert in software, e.g., com key_addr...
In fact now that I think of it how about just changing the toggle chord test to accept either my existing toggle chord or the 8th key=joystick button. Then if...
... But I only wanted to invert one line, and the issue is kind of IN the hardware (ie. that the microcontroller inputs are tied high internally and therefore...
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