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I've been playing with OpenOffice and have produced some more crude figures: http://www.chordite.com/garage.htm These might resemble what a product would look...
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Feb 5, 2003
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Seems you used local addresses for the images, we can not access them. ... forced...
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Dang. Somehow checking the relative address box in Composer in Mozilla 1.2.1 doesn't seem to be having the right effect. So I edited it by hand. Please try...
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Wow, that was a pretty fast fix. The pictures look good, I couldnt draw a hand, on the computer, or off!...
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I've just fired up another kingpin-style prototype, this time using Omron D2F-FL switches (p823 in Digi-key cat. T031). They're smaller and lighter than the...
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John, The new key switches you mentioned... do they make a quieter sound than the old ones?...
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Yes. I estimate they're about half as loud (down 3db )...
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Lately I've been thinking idly about exactly how one should scan a hand to get the dimensions that would enable a miniature milling machine to carve a keyboard...
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Feb 21, 2003
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Hiya everyone, i've been following this board and the site for a while now, and really want to have a go at building my own keyboard. My problem is that i live...
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Hi Zak, Digi-Key, www.digikey.com , seems to work in the UK. There's a little Union Jack at the top of their home page. Just click on that and off you go to...
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Feb 24, 2003
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Where coudl I find that information? seems that would be pretty cheap.. basically a cable right? <snip> ... parallel ... basically a ... <snip>...
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Feb 24, 2003
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I checked Uk.Digikey.com, and.... £25 for one chip if you include shipping and handling :( So back to my original idea, could anybody send me the chip, just...
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Feb 25, 2003
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so, there is no free free meathod? aren't there plans online for your own board that works with the free software? ...
Joseph Iacobucci
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BTW, I'm pretty sure ponyprog is freeware for what we are doing. ... From: Zak Cohen <maptie@...> [mailto:maptie@...] Sent: Tuesday, February 25,...
John Tokash
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Feb 26, 2003
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Hi Joseph, The main issue is how to get the keyboard software (firmware) into the chip, i.e., how to program the chip with the free downloadable keyboard...
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Feb 26, 2003
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OK, I think I've got most of my confusions cleared up. Ignore everything I said before. (1) Of course John Tokash is quite right, PonyProg is free: ...
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For the record, I deleted two more of my own messages which were wrong and misleading. (I love having moderator powers ;-)...
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Feb 27, 2003
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[I swear, I feel like I've already posted this before, but can't find the post... Ah, well.] Ah, yes. The idea for a thumb "mouse" - or at least some sort of ...
Hmm. I seem to have f...
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Once upon a time, somewhere, I saw a guy using a pointing device that looked like a ball-point pen with a half-inch ball and a cord out the top. You held it...
John McKown
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Well, I finally got all the parts together for the simplest programmer I could find, it was basically 4 resistors. I can not get it to work with Ponyprog...
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If I understood him correctly, John T. said he had to reboot with the programer attached before PP would recognize it. Could that be it?...
John McKown
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First I have to say that I am _very_ impressed with John's innovative design. Secondly, I am _very_ impressed that he has made the design available to...
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It's official. I feel like a right _wally_! I did some more tracing and discovered that I had the Clock and Data around the wrong way. Not only that, but have...
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There is something accursed about those lines to the PS/2 connector. I published two or three wrong diagrams. I truly believe what's in the current...
John McKown
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Jul 25, 2003
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... connector. ... the ... it ... typing ... I have made some enhancements which I will email you as soon as I have a pretty circuit diagram. The enhancements...
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Very cool on 1, 2 and 5 Darcy. 3 is supposed to be already there in a way. The way my original code works, as I recall, is that shift, control and alt all...
John McKown
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Jul 26, 2003
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Check it out: http://www.chordite.com/currey.htm...
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Jul 30, 2003
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I'd like to say a little more about proper fit. I hope I don't sound preachy, just sincere :-) First off, a one-hand keyboard that's supported by the...
John McKown
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I'm still kind of obsessing about using coat hangers as the raw material for frames for prototypes. It really appeals to me but when I tried it the results...
John McKown
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Aug 12, 2003
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For about a year I've been pondering just where is the ergonomically optimal places to mount a miniature joystick, trackball, gyroscope or other pointing...
John McKown
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