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Offline whodevil

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HHKB intel edison
« on: Sat, 07 November 2015, 23:20:27 »
So I came across the intel edison recently. It's a pretty powerful SOC, it is about the size of the teensy. It has onboard wifi and bluetooth, and there are a few prototyping boards with plenty of gpio. I was wondering if anyone has thought about putting one of these inside the HHKB? Embedded linux could potentially crack the door wide open for keyboard hacks. One idea I had was make the keyboard reconfigure itself based on which computer it is communicating with. (I work on a linux machine at work, and windows or mac at home). Hell maybe this would make it so I could sync easily with an ipad.

Thoughts?
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Offline fanpeople

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Re: HHKB intel edison
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 07 November 2015, 23:31:45 »
An interesting project, you had me at HHKB in the title of your thread. Do you think it would be possible to use it as a simple computer for say watching movies or body boarding the web? I just think it would be cool to have a portable keyboard-computer. I get your standard phone would probably be more powerful, but KEYBOARD FORUM.
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Offline whodevil

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Re: HHKB intel edison
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 07 November 2015, 23:45:58 »
oh interesting, I bet you could hook a little display up to it. I saw this the other day

https://www.adafruit.com/products/938

I think it is small enough to wedge into the bottom left corner of the HHKB where there are no keys. Could make the display show battery life, and which computer it is paired with, maybe something else about which mode it is in.
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Re: HHKB intel edison
« Reply #3 on: Sat, 07 November 2015, 23:54:13 »
That would be a cool feature.
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Re: HHKB intel edison
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 08 November 2015, 00:03:09 »
Or just get one of those humungous aluminium HHKB cases!
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"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces." - Eiiti Wada

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Offline fanpeople

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Re: HHKB intel edison
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 08 November 2015, 00:04:30 »
Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 08 November 2015, 00:03:09
Or just get one of those humungous aluminium HHKB cases!

Blasphemy!
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Offline rowdy

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Re: HHKB intel edison
« Reply #6 on: Sun, 08 November 2015, 00:05:52 »
Quote from: fanpeople on Sun, 08 November 2015, 00:04:30
Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 08 November 2015, 00:03:09
Or just get one of those humungous aluminium HHKB cases!

Blasphemy!

Lots of space for extra electronics inside!
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"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces." - Eiiti Wada

NEC APC-H4100E | Ducky DK9008 Shine MX blue LED red | Ducky DK9008 Shine MX blue LED green | Link 900243-08 | CM QFR MX black | KeyCool 87 white MX reds | HHKB 2 Pro | Model M 02-Mar-1993 | Model M 29-Nov-1995 | CM Trigger (broken) | CM QFS MX green | Ducky DK9087 Shine 3 TKL Yellow Edition MX black | Lexmark SSK 21-Apr-1994 | IBM SSK 13-Oct-1987 | CODE TKL MX clear | Model M 122 01-Jun-1988

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Offline fanpeople

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Re: HHKB intel edison
« Reply #7 on: Sun, 08 November 2015, 00:46:38 »
Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 08 November 2015, 00:05:52
Quote from: fanpeople on Sun, 08 November 2015, 00:04:30
Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 08 November 2015, 00:03:09
Or just get one of those humungous aluminium HHKB cases!

Blasphemy!

Lots of space for extra electronics inside!

At the cost of case perfection.
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Offline whodevil

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Re: HHKB intel edison
« Reply #8 on: Sun, 08 November 2015, 00:58:13 »
Quote from: fanpeople on Sun, 08 November 2015, 00:46:38
Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 08 November 2015, 00:05:52
Quote from: fanpeople on Sun, 08 November 2015, 00:04:30
Quote from: rowdy on Sun, 08 November 2015, 00:03:09
Or just get one of those humungous aluminium HHKB cases!

Blasphemy!

Lots of space for extra electronics inside!

At the cost of case perfection.

Amen to that
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Offline mrflow3r

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Re: HHKB intel edison
« Reply #9 on: Thu, 12 November 2015, 11:21:04 »
Quote from: whodevil on Sat, 07 November 2015, 23:20:27
So I came across the intel edison recently. It's a pretty powerful SOC, it is about the size of the teensy. It has onboard wifi and bluetooth, and there are a few prototyping boards with plenty of gpio. I was wondering if anyone has thought about putting one of these inside the HHKB? Embedded linux could potentially crack the door wide open for keyboard hacks. One idea I had was make the keyboard reconfigure itself based on which computer it is communicating with. (I work on a linux machine at work, and windows or mac at home). Hell maybe this would make it so I could sync easily with an ipad.

Thoughts?
Whoa that is an interesting idea -  reconfiguring the layout based on the host computer. Do It.
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Re: HHKB intel edison
« Reply #10 on: Thu, 12 November 2015, 11:21:12 »
Quote from: whodevil on Sat, 07 November 2015, 23:20:27
So I came across the intel edison recently. It's a pretty powerful SOC, it is about the size of the teensy. It has onboard wifi and bluetooth, and there are a few prototyping boards with plenty of gpio. I was wondering if anyone has thought about putting one of these inside the HHKB? Embedded linux could potentially crack the door wide open for keyboard hacks. One idea I had was make the keyboard reconfigure itself based on which computer it is communicating with. (I work on a linux machine at work, and windows or mac at home). Hell maybe this would make it so I could sync easily with an ipad.

Thoughts?
Whoa that is an interesting idea -  reconfiguring the layout based on the host computer. Do It.
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