I found this cited by Slashdot: a do-it-yourself data glove <http://www.cemetech.net/projects/item.php?id=16> , i.e., a glove with multiple electrical...
Hi! A friend and I plan to start a chorded keyboard. From all the chorded keyboards we saw, the chordite seems to be the most practical and best planned. I...
Slashdot has once again enthusiastically cited that lapboard thing I have sneered at, the one with the little platform below it on which to run a standard...
Below and in the photo section of this group are some belated pictures with the bent-wire braces in place and the switches temporarily wired to the arms but...
Here's a note from Marius, who got locked out by Yahoo :-) ================================ Hi John, Sorry for the huge delay, but I was unable to read the...
It's not assembled yet; it lacks the bent-wire braces, switches and circuitry but you can see how the 5 machined parts fit together. Remember beauty is as...
I should mention here the Spiffchorder [1], a joint effort of Greg Priest-Dorman [2] and Mikkel Holm Olsen . It's a 7-key USB design with 3 for the thumb. It...
At makerfaire I saw a glove that functioned as a wearable chording keyboard. A conductive fabric panel could be placed on a table, on a leg, on an arm, and a...
An interesting alternative to the use of manufactured switches presented itself at maker faire. A wire was tensioned over a PVC pipe and held away from it with...
From the other builders out there, do you find the switches he used work? During finals, someone threw a keybaord out of a window, and i managed to get some...
I've been experimenting with the emachineshop software. It quotes price estimates. The design I've been playing with improves on my previous ones by making...
Another prediction from the man who thought 640K should be enough ram for anyone: Gates Sees Diminished Role for Keyboards 6 hours ago PITTSBURGH (AP) —...
I just googled up a new chorder, the EkaPad. <http://www.ekatetra.com/information_news/wp060820-usbekapad.html> It has 12 keys layed out 3 by 4 on a flat...
Hi. I'm going to build and give away two free Chordite keyboards. See http://blog.russnelson.com/770/free-chordites.html for details. -- --my blog is at...
LAME Yesterday or the day before Slashdot cited the Evoluent Vertical Mouse <http://> , a table-supported thing with 5 buttons. It uses the "handshake" hand...
I briefly got curious about changes in the way mouse mode works that might make it less annoying to use. My present code, kbm06, has acceleration of a sort:...
Hi, I've wanted to build my own chordite for two years now, but didn't even manage to purchase the needed parts. I know this is kind of a bold question, but...
Between the double lines below is an excerpt from Greg Aharonian's Internet Patent News Service newsletter [1], 30 May 2007 edition, which quotes a letter in...
Hello Everyone, I would just like to solicit feedback/opinions/violent reactions. What if..... 1) Making the chordite from a round pipe maybe a diameter of a...
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...
In case you didn't know, the US patent office and patent law generally are completely out of control. One of the things that still happens is the "submarine...
Two new blog postings here: http://blog.russnelson.com/chordite/index.html -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com | You can do any damn thing ...
Thanks Richard! ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and...
John, I wanted to upload the PIC USB keyboard code to the group, but I don't see any mechanism to either create a folder or upload stuff. It is about 123Kb...
Googling around about rapid prototyping and 3D printers I came upon SketchUp: http://www.sketchup.com/?sid=369 Just mouse over the features listed in the table...
