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This is a simpler version of Twiddler: https://twiddler.tekgear.com/
Have you ever used that? It looks interesting.
This is called a chorded keyboard [1]. Like seemingly everything invented in the following 40 years, it was introduced by Douglas Englebart in the Mother of all Demos in 1968. Englebart had a iOS app that allowed you to chord type as well. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
There were also some pants in the early 90s that had some of these built into the thighs of the pants.. so you could type with your arms basically at rest on your lap or at your side.
Curious if there are any chorded keyboards that use tilt sensors to make character input depend on button plus position, rather than button combinations alone.
A friend of mine made this keyboard a while back https://github.com/TristanTrim/asetniop-keyboard
I have that one starred. ASETNIOP looks quite interesting to me. I just wish it was open source. Without that, I don't see how I could possibly adapt it to the various operating systems I use day-to-day.
It seems like every hardware geek makes one of these at some point. I think it's really cool. Designing a chording scheme for individual keys is a fun problem, kind of a nerd snipe. But in the end everyone concludes, "It's too slow to be useful." I think where the hand held keyboard might be really interesting is in combination with steno ( http://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/ ), but I haven't seen that done.
Falsehoods programmers believe about hands: - they have 5 fingers Joking aside, that's a really nice project: congratulations!
Well, digits; a thumb is not technically a finger:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumb#Thumb_and_fingers
Colloquially, for many (most?) English speakers, the thumb is a finger:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=4+fingers%2C5+...
A strawberry is a berry. I don't care if biologists or botanists or whoever use a narrower technical definition in their research papers. The colloquial definition is just as valid. Prescriptivism-by-authority can take a hike. Yes, I will die on this hill.
Since there's a plenty of chorded keyboards already, someone should come up with some sort of a scat keyboard, or rather input method. Each keystroke is represented by a sequence of three notes that you sing into the microphone. Three notes produce two intervals which, measured in semitones, are converted into keys pressed (being, say, duodecimal digits). The relative duration of notes sang can be interpreted as modi…
If anyone knows community that like building things like this, I couldn't find anything. (mainly because i have no idea if it has a name)