you can rip the keyboard out and map how it connects to its "keyboard controller" then connect a parallel port or microcontroller to the "keyboard controller" and send it phantom signals from your computer. Then you could do scrolling characters... it would be equal to a braille terminal in functionality probably... When I say "keyboard controller" I figure it is a matrix keypad of some sort and the wires from the keypresses go to a chip that seneses the state of the keys and displays on the screen.... Bryan Hurley On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Tom Longson wrote: > Went to Toys R Us today to check it out. Offers full QWRTY as far as I can > tell, mostly using a function key. The main display indeed has 7 characters. > It also looks like you can address individual people using this too, > although I'm not positive of this. I'm definately going to buy some of these > later in the week to see what they can do. > > I'm planning on disassembling them for an expository article on igargoyle. > My hope is that I can refit these with adult headgear, an amp for the radio > signal, and make them a cheap communication device for next year's burning > man. While these have moving parts in the keys, i think you could seal them > easily. > > If I can figure out how to get a computer to intercept and transmit > messages, I think we have something really nice, as you could hook it up to > an irc chat room or a custom bot. > > Let me know what you guys think! > -Tom -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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