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Wearable Wireless Split Keyboard Glove with integrated Trackball (BLE 5, USB-C)
serapath:
Hey, I'm a web software developer and I'm new and have no or little experience with making hardware.
I would love to know if anyone ever came across a QERTY-Style keyboard that would fit the description:
"Wearable Wireless Split Keyboard Glove with integrated Trackball (BLE 5, USB-C)"
If not, would anyone be interested in planning and working on something like this?
It would be all open source and I can pay and contribute what I can.
1. I was working on a 3D model (programmatic CAD) so it will be easy to integrate it into a website and let people input their finger/hand measurements to auto-adjust the size.
see: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNxENndziy1R-nHRc6rbz4TRRPldppAM8
2. I also modelled a playdoh version of the device
see: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bru9IHChpz1/
see: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bru7G-Rh46v/
The point is to have the keys and everything fully programmable over USB-C or Bluetooth 5 from a web browser.
=> I can build software, even though it will be challenging
I need help with all the rest, especially the hardware part so that it will fit into that form.
I'm also open to any ideas how to make it as comfortable and minimal to wear as possible :-)
So - if any of you has some time on the weekends and is interested in making such a device and make it open source,
I'd be personally willing to pay as much as I can to help develop it.
It's not urgent, but I'd like to push it forward and have an online video call once a week.
I'm also happy if anyone could recommend me somebody or some place regarding how to make progress on this, because I'm kind of stuck with the little progress I made so far since 2016.
cheers
Alex
equalunique:
Awesome!
Maybe you can enlist Gondolindrim for help on the hardware side. He made a recent post here. Check it out!
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serapath:
Thank you very much :-)
I'm new to this forum. How do I find Gondolindrim or rather what does "enlisting" mean? ...and how do I find his recent post? :-)
equalunique:
--- Quote from: serapath on Sun, 05 January 2020, 04:44:38 ---Thank you very much :-)
I'm new to this forum. How do I find Gondolindrim or rather what does "enlisting" mean? ...and how do I find his recent post? :-)
--- End quote ---
This is the post where Gondolindrim advertized his hardware services: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=104065.0;topicseen
He's done a great job with the open source SharkPCB project: https://github.com/Gondolindrim/SharkPCB
yui:
There is a few similar projects that have been done in the past, all handwired from what i have seen, and matias made a one handed keyboard (https://matias.ca/halfkeyboard/). not 100% what you were looking for but maybe a starting point.
I have not seen Gondolindrim making multipart/flex pcb keyboards, actually i have not seen much flex pcb keyboard projects other than the custom M project a while back, could be an interesting experiment.
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