simulating chorded keyboards

David Rysdam david at rysdam.org
Tue Oct 14 18:51:51 EDT 2014


Matt Minuti <matt.minuti at gmail.com> writes:
> I'd strongly suggest looking at doing a little bit of hardware hacking via
> the Arduino Leonardo. It's trivially easy to make it show up as a generic
> USB HID keyboard, meaning no fancy driver concerns, no matter the OS.
>
> The keys could either be a handful (heh) of buttons laid out however he
> wants, or you could even use a PS/2 keyboard and have the Arduino interpret
> the keycodes and send the appropriate keypress signals via USB.

I actually suggested this, but he knows what I consider the bare minimum
of programming and even less electronics. Right now he's in an
exploratory phase. If he gets farther, I'll help him with an
Arduino/Pi/programmable keylogger and he can design and 3D print an
enclosure with keys.


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