-------- Original Message -------- From: Christopher Havel <[email protected]> Apparently from: [email protected] To: Eco-Conscious Computing <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] usb keyboard, width about 15cm? Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 13:10:26 -0400
> The Bluetooth keyboards are Bluetooth only. > > Wired USB keyboard, that size? Never seen one. Would love to have one http://usb.brando.com/prod_detail.php?prod_id=00666 > myself; I've wanted to homebrew a waist-pack PC with wrist keyboard and > "google glass" style screen, since approximately a half hour after the dawn > of time. I've even got a viewfinder CRT out of an old camcorder that I > could use as the display if I hooked it up right. Trouble is I don't trust > BT to not interfere with everyone else and screw me up too... that, and I'd > need to make it work with a battery. > > Now that I think about it... I think I've seen one such keyboard literally > once ever, either by luck on eBay or on some other website. Don't remember > since it was at least five years ago. The thing commanded a princely sum, > too... like $150. > > It occurs to me as well that you might be able to get an > industrial/commercial duty wrist PC off eBay (be prepared to pay multiple > hundreds of dollars) and doof around with its built-in keyboard... or do > something with part of a cell phone and a Teensy... but that's real > jerry-rigging at best. There are also keyboards floating around for old > IPAQ PDAs that may be useful somehow... but you'd have to reverse-engineer > them and they look like they'd be horrible to use to begin with, you don't > even get most PC function keys (TAB, CTRL, ALT, etc). > > Good luck, and let me know if you find one... > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
