Chording keyboards

j-beda - 11:51am Sep 13, 2004 PST

At 6:38 AM -0700 2004/09/10, Google Kreme wrote:

OTOH, I wish there was a chorded keyboard that was cheap enough that I could justify buying one to try to learn it. I am not confident that I have the required coördination to use a chorded keyboard, and the expense is rather large for a "I wonder if this will work" keyboard.

There was a mention of a USB chording device (a gaming joystick thingy) on Slashdot a while back that was being used to try to make a driver in Linux for this type of thing. Or maybe a driver already existed and they just needed to figure out what to do to make it work as keyborad input? Or maybe my memory is totally wonky... Anyhow the point was that the device was only about $25 or so from a variety of retailers.

OK, I'll go search for the story....

<http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/11/066216&tid=137&tid=106>

""Slashdot has often featured attempts at improvement upon the QWERTY keyboard. Here's a one-handed USB keyboard that you can buy for $25 online , or a bit more at the CompUSA. There's one catch: someone will have to design a keying pattern and hack up software for it. It's a task just crying out for an Open Source project." Bruce has also included on the linked page code with which to read the output from the device. "

Here is the link to the article in question with an image of the device: <http://technocrat.net/article.pl?sid=04/08/11/0322211>