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Re: Kitty [Re: Twiddler2]

--- Lucy E Dunne <> wrote:
> I emailed this guy a few months ago and he said he's
> in talks with 
> manufacturers, but nothing yet.
> Keep your fingers crossed....
> --Lucy
> 
> 
> 
> At 10:14 PM 10/21/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >You know what, I would like an alternative. Anyone
> know the kitty guys? I
> >sure would like to be a beta tester.
> >
> >Kitty: http://www.kittytech.com/about-kitty.html

Couldn't you build your own? It's a pretty simple
device, after all. I'm pretty sure you have enough
pins on one parallel port to do one hand without any
electronics, probably two*. Anyway, as the
half-keyboard shows, even one hand is enough. After
that, building a linux driver shouldn't be too hard,
but i have no idea how one would make one for windows.

*-Connect the three contacts of each thumb to 3 pins
[2 contacts per pin]; let's call them pins 0, 1, 2.
-Connect each fingertip to one pin each. 8 pins, so
pins 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. (4 pins for one hand)
-Cycle through each thumb contact and check for input
on pins 3-10. That's enough to know which finger is
connected to which contact on each hand.

I'll have to check again, but i'm pretty sure we can
have 7 pīns on a parallel port, and i THINK we use 11.

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