The PicKey project is very cool, I looked at it a few months ago when the wearables group here was looking into input devices. Basically, it's in PIC assembly, and sends both PS/2 mouse and keyboard codes to the computer. No driver, just plug it into those ports and you are all set. It doesn't use a touchPoint or other mouse device, just certain chords move the mouse around your screen. Apologies to all, I've been working on the YACK (Yet Another Chording Keyboard) for the past few months and have been to lame to make a homepage for it. I'm fixing that ASAP, and looking into code release agreements since I did this as a final project for a design class last term. YACK is designed to be an open tool kit for creating a chorded keyboard. I've written PS/2 utility code in C for Microchip's line of PICs, as well as the code to run a full chording keyboard. It stores the chord-map on the device, so you only need to plug it in and start typing. Lots of other neat and nifty features, but let me make a quick page for it over the next few days. Oh, I should add that this isn't just code and design -- I actually have two of these built and in use ;-) Questions... Honestly, I think most will be answered once I remember HTML and make this page. If it's not up by next Wed, please feel free to flame me to your heart's content ;-) Josh Weaver MIT Wearable Computing Project -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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