An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad
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An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad
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Re: An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad
#2The hardware is one half of the DIY split ergo-mech Lily58.
It is open source and kits are widely available. https://github.com/kata0510/Lily58>
The FrogPad-inspired part is the firmware/layout for only one hand and the labels in the relegendable keycaps.
Re: An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad
#3This is excellent. I had a frogpad and got reasonably comfortable with it, my use case was mostly messaging so not a heavy use of special characters like {}/|Etc. Given my experience with it, I agree that using it as a model for this project was a good choice. An acquaintance, Steve Roberts, had a really clever keyboard that attached to the handlebars of his recumbent bicycle so that he could type while riding.
Re: An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad
#4A nice hack for building a small keyboard/macro pad that is 80% of the way there is to buy one of those cherry mx key testers, a microcontroller dev board of your choice, and a small lipo. All together it might cost you something like $40 depending on how many keys your key tester has and you should only need a soldering iron and some wire to put it together.
Re: An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad
#5Optimized voice typing?
A special voice-code. Like Thufir Hawat did in Dune (the old one).
Because I can talk way faster than type. And if we could just iron out the bumps. Remove ambiguities and such.
Surely that's been done.
(Or even more specialized, for writing java...)
Re: An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad
#6Optimized voice typing? A special voice-code. Like Thufir Hawat did in Dune (the old one). Because I can talk way faster than type. And if we could just iron out the bumps. Remove ambiguities and such. Surely that's been done. (Or even more specialized, for writing java...)
Talon Voice with enough tweaking, lots of practice, and a good mic can get you there.
Re: An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad
#7This is excellent. I had a frogpad and got reasonably comfortable with it, my use case was mostly messaging so not a heavy use of special characters like {}/|Etc. Given my experience with it, I agree that using it as a model for this project was a good choice. An acquaintance, Steve Roberts, had a really clever keyboard that attached to the handlebars of his recumbent bicycle so that he could type while riding.
Out of curiosity, how fast did you type on the frogpad ?
Re: An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad
#8I have dreamed of one of these for driving. Touch typing would make responding to something while keeping eyes on the road much much easier.
Re: An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad
#9I have dreamed of one of these for driving. Touch typing would make responding to something while keeping eyes on the road much much easier.
It's necessary to keep your brain on the road, as well as your eyes — and your hands on the wheel.
Re: An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad
#10I have experience with both the FrogPad and the Matias Half Keyboard (I paid $95; now $595). The Frogpad never caught on with me.
https://matias.store/products/half-keyboard
The Matias Half Keyboard is based on a theory that our minds mirror each hand, so by holding the space bar to access the missing half keyboard, we already know what to do. I was skeptical. Recognizing that we're modal (do we even recognize that telephone keypads and numeric keypads are different, or do we just use them without thinking?) I decided to learn Dvorak on the half keyboard while continuing to use QWERTY on my full keyboards.
One day, on a lark, I tried Dvorak on a full keyboard. I could, easily. The mirror theory holds.