I just bought a cheap $15 keyboard and tore it apart hoping to disect the encoder from the keyboard and rig up some sort of glove based keyboard. This looks like a piece of cake. The membrane keyboard just uses combinations of 1-16, and 1-8 lines to generate various keycodes. My idea is simple, buy a single leather glove, punch 8 conductive rivets on the thumb (for lines 1-8) and spread lines 1-16 (actually 1-4 are unused, so 5-16) across my first three fingers. Keys are activated by bringing rivets from the thumb in contact with rivets on the fingers. I can run small gauge wires over the glove and solder them into the small encoding board (approx. 4x1 inches) strapped to the back of my arm. If this works, this would make a great input device. Anyone else try something like this? -Paul -- R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator / rpmc@troi.cc.rochester.edu / x52059 317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 Computers don't make errors; what they do, they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH
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