well, I've tried something siliar on my desktop keybard; I ren some leads from the traces for the up,down,left,right,alt and enter keys. By virtue of my keyboard design I can do all this with one contact on each finger, two on the palm and three on the thumb. It was originally designed for for with Netscape, but I'm porting the idea to my soon-to-be-built hp95lx-hybrid wearable. In article <358A55E7.E9987BE0@troi.cc.rochester.edu>, rpmc@troi.cc.rochester.edu wrote: > > 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 > > -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading
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