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Re: Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

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Author here! Pleasant surprise to find my project at the top of HN this morning with such positive feedback :) I'm happy to answer any questions or hear suggestions for future tweaks. Planning to make this into a customizable full-body game controller as well.

how much did you love the nintendo powerglove back in the day?

Re: Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

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Author here! Pleasant surprise to find my project at the top of HN this morning with such positive feedback :) I'm happy to answer any questions or hear suggestions for future tweaks. Planning to make this into a customizable full-body game controller as well.

As a remote software developer, if this became a product that could be used daily I'd probably buy it. It would be the key link between programming and body exercise.

My back agrees with you

Re: Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a remote software developer, if this became a product that could be used daily I'd probably buy it. It would be the key link between programming and body exercise.

Yoga pose based programming?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation#Origins

Re: Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

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This is straight up awesome and must watch video just for the lolz. But there is a thread to pull on here in terms of tangible user interfaces and the replacement of keyboards as a traditional input system. Meta's CTRL-Labs (ex Myo Armband) are working on EMG where just signaling to your muscles can trigger keyboard strokes and the bandwidth is faster than fingers or so they say. There are several other R&D efforts i…

How's that research going? It would be interesting to be able to "type" on any surface, just by pretending there's a keyboard in front of me.

Re: Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

#118

Author here! Pleasant surprise to find my project at the top of HN this morning with such positive feedback :) I'm happy to answer any questions or hear suggestions for future tweaks. Planning to make this into a customizable full-body game controller as well.

I hope the video was dramatized and that you didn't actually hurt yourself! Rather than type every letter, a more efficient system is to represent sounds with keys. This is how stenography works. Each stoke of the keys is mapped to a series of characters; a letter, a grouping (such as 'sh' or 'ing'), or a complete phrase. Using such a system would allow one motion, for example for 'b', to map to a whole word, such as…

Interesting, I wonder if you could make a BodyChord or FaceChord setup using steno... Can you actually write code using a steno keyboard - as in, full access to all the usual symbols and modifiers - or would it just be for letters and basic punctuation?

Re: Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard

#119

Author here! Pleasant surprise to find my project at the top of HN this morning with such positive feedback :) I'm happy to answer any questions or hear suggestions for future tweaks. Planning to make this into a customizable full-body game controller as well.

Your video is a work of art. You could probably combine semaphore keyboard with some sort of stenography software for faster input (e.g. Plover https://youtu.be/KZGuBV1xe64 )

I replied to a similar comment above, definitely worth an experiment!
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