[Wear-Hard] Chording keyboards

[Greg Priest-Dorman]

You want a Chorder?

Well, your welcome to use what I use.

I have been using a 7 key chorder for quite some time (1994 I
think). The one I currently use has been in daily use (with the
exception of the time I commited to trying a twiddler for a while)
since April of 1998.

The current software is new.  The chorder comes up as a standard usb
keyboard so you can plug it into anything that will take a usb
keyboard and just type.  I did not write the software, the person who
did is still working on one or two details and of course the docs but
I can share it with individuals who want to use it at this time.  Once
it is cleaned up it will be posted publicly.

The software side now resides on a pic.  The circut is *very*
simple. (Under 20 components with a lot of those being resistors.)

For now ('till it is ready for public release) let me know off list
and I would be happy to send it out to folks who will actually use it.

Pictures of my chorders are of course at
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/wearable.pics.html But you don't
have to make it look like mine, you can put 7 buttons on anything you
like in whatever arrangement you like.  You can also assign whatever
chords you like (with some limitations) to what ever keys you like and
load it into the pic over the usb interface.  It is a nice,
inexpensive, reliable solution.  I have been using this program daily
since ISWC this year and frankly, it just works.

'nuff said

-Greg

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 Greg Priest-Dorman
 priestdo at cs.vassar.edu