In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.980621073306.8103B-100000@reg16.admin.rochester.edu>, "R. Paul McCarty" <mccarty@reg16.admin.rochester.edu> wrote: <<snip>> > I'll let you know if I get this working with a third chip. :-\ But after > three I'm calling it quits. One thing I've also been thining about it using something like the Nintendo Powerglove. No extensive wiring required, but you'd need to write a handler to translate the serial impules to characters. and I suppose you'd need several 'guestures' to get the funtionality of a keybaord. Another wierd idea (yes, i do have a lot of free time.. I'm a network tech) is something similar. Its hard to describe, but it involves running lines down the back of the fingers (like tendons), and have them hooked up to some sort of spreing loaded contacts. So when you curl your index finger you get an 'L' or something. If you were to wire one up, perhaps even one on each hand, you could have the same idea as a 'twiddler', but you wouldn't actually be holding anything in your hand. I actually tried something like this a few years ago in HS. I hooked to fingers up to two potentiometers, and my curling or extening my fingers I could control things like the dimmer for my desk lamp or the volume of my stereo. -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading
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