[Wear-Hard] Chording keyboards

[Stephen Cuzzort]

Greg, I'd be interested in seeing that design.  I'm working on a gumstix
based wearable that fits inside the twiddler case, and I might be able to
reuse some of the design.

Steve

On Dec 14, 2007 6:01 PM, Greg Priest-Dorman <priestdo at cs.vassar.edu> wrote:

>
> 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<http://www.cs.vassar.edu/%7Epriestdo/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
>
>
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