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geekhack Community => Input Devices => Topic started by: tricheboars on Tue, 19 March 2013, 01:59:34

Title: The Minuum Keyboard Project
Post by: tricheboars on Tue, 19 March 2013, 01:59:34

pretty neat. although it looks like it may have a serious learning curve. it would be cool as hell to do that though.

Title: Re: The Minuum Keyboard Project
Post by: Findecanor on Tue, 19 March 2013, 09:26:11

I had to watch it twice and pause to see what the L was going on.

Apparently, it is based on prediction. For instance, if you press <qaz> <yhn> <edc>, it figures out that the statistically most common word from those three columns is "and".
The video does not tell what happens when there is more than one word that matches and the prediction is wrong, or what happens if you misspell a word...

Title: Re: The Minuum Keyboard Project
Post by: tricheboars on Tue, 19 March 2013, 14:05:25

Quote from: Findecanor on Tue, 19 March 2013, 09:26:11

I had to watch it twice and pause to see what the L was going on.

Apparently, it is based on prediction. For instance, if you press <qaz> <yhn> <edc>, it figures out that the statistically most common word from those three columns is "and".
The video does not tell what happens when there is more than one word that matches and the prediction is wrong, or what happens if you misspell a word...

i am more interested in the realms beyond the touchscreen.  did you see it where he was typing with some marks on his arm? WTF was that all about. i imagine it is the same as the "prediction" method you just stated above. the arm thing could be cool. but i think the tilting smartphone typing method is nutso.

if this is going to be awesome it has to have some kind of AI to decipher what i want to say. 

the future is bright! but there still going to have to take my keyboard from my cold dead fingers. i just dont see how we can communicate more efficiently than this wondrous board.

Title: Re: The Minuum Keyboard Project
Post by: hashbaz on Tue, 19 March 2013, 15:19:25

This feels dangerously close to a parody video.  Bouncy Apple music, obnoxious hand-gesturey spokesman, self-serious tone, typing on your arm...

We've been using predictive typing systems for years, I'm not sure from this video how this one is any different.  Grouping the keys based on the QWERTY layout rather than alphabetically might help ... I guess?  Dunno.

Title: Re: The Minuum Keyboard Project
Post by: pyro on Tue, 19 March 2013, 16:27:14

If different words overlap, he still can select from the prediction list above the keyboard.

It does seem to have some pros (fewer but bigger buttons, less interface), so I'd really like to try it. They are going to have a hard time now that swiftkey has integrated a swype feature, though.

Title: Re: The Minuum Keyboard Project
Post by: jdcarpe on Tue, 19 March 2013, 17:47:03

Plate mounted mechanical Minuum, anyone?

(http://i.imgur.com/lEKemeW.png)

Title: Re: The Minuum Keyboard Project
Post by: pyro on Wed, 20 March 2013, 10:29:01

would type

Title: Re: Re: The Minuum Keyboard Project
Post by: tricheboars on Wed, 20 March 2013, 12:31:35

Quote from: jdcarpe on Tue, 19 March 2013, 17:47:03

Plate mounted mechanical Minuum, anyone?

Show Image

(http://i.imgur.com/lEKemeW.png)

yo jdcarpe can you make me a custom aluminum case for my arm's minuum tattoo I just got? perhaps purple aluminum and a brass weight? also the Cherry switches hit my nerve endings when bottomed out. should I lube them?

Title: Re: The Minuum Keyboard Project
Post by: FoxWolf1 on Thu, 21 March 2013, 19:27:37

Looks to me like it's based on a combination of presses and sliding gestures to control the autocomplete, so a mechanical version wouldn't work. I take it that the actual "concept" here isn't related to any of the particular implementation-- phone, arm, etc-- but that of of a system for reasonably fast typing with low precision and dimensional requirements using a combination of a fairly restricted set of discrete inputs combined with a gesture component.

Title: Re: The Minuum Keyboard Project
Post by: Glod on Fri, 22 March 2013, 14:37:14

single row mechanical keys with each placed on stop of tiny single axis joysticks that only move when the switch has bottomed out with a nice onscreen interface. solved; lets make it happen, geekhack science llc. :P :P :P

(the sad thing is i could probably prototype something like this, im just so incredibly lazy)

Title: Re: The Minuum Keyboard Project
Post by: ASETNIOP on Wed, 27 March 2013, 14:18:12

Quote from: jdcarpe on Tue, 19 March 2013, 17:47:03

Plate mounted mechanical Minuum, anyone?

Show Image

(http://i.imgur.com/lEKemeW.png)

This design would actually work quite well with ASETNIOP.

But that's not what I'm here for.  I made a hack of the Minuum design - you can try it here: http://www.asetniop.com/blog/?p=300