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geekhack Community => Input Devices => Topic started by: mathiasx on Sun, 22 July 2012, 21:47:26

Title: Chording keyboards?
Post by: mathiasx on Sun, 22 July 2012, 21:47:26

What's available out there for chording keyboards? Is it better to build one with quality switches? Things like the Frogpad don't look all that great to me, and I don't have a necessity to wear one (it can sit at a desk that I'm sitting at.)

Currently, I'm considering getting something like the Belkin n50 /n52 / Razor Nostromo gamepad and modding it into a chording keyboard. I'm a bit of a programmer / hardware maker type and so I'd probably use a Teensy USB board (I've got a ton of Arduino experience.) Thoughts?

(http://drh2.img.digitalriver.com/DRHM/Storefront/Company/razerusa/images/product/gallery/razer-nostromo-gallery2.jpg)

Title: Re: Chording keyboards?
Post by: josh6135 on Fri, 03 August 2012, 02:36:53

I have used a Nostromo for The Witcher and it was very comfortable and customizable. I have basically no idea outside of a quick Google search what chording is. Overall the Razer software let's you create macros, sorry for probably not helping you at all.

Title: Re: Chording keyboards?
Post by: braaaiiins on Fri, 03 August 2012, 14:59:33

Chording keyboard would be interesting. Chording is just using a combination keys for letters. You could do the whole alphabet with just 5 keys I think. I think it would get pretty messy for special characters and function keys though.