simulating chorded keyboards

[David Rysdam]

Paul Beaudet <inof8or at gmail.com> writes:
> USB hid can only report 6 keys at a time and some modifiers, which would be
> fine for most chorded applications
> except for the fact that, the keyboards that any given one of us has likely
> fails to report more than
> 3 keys at one time depending on which keys are being chorded.

Oho, I didn't know either of these things. Fortunately, he is
gravitating towards a design with purpose-built hardware and in-line
Arduino. The latter due to not wanting to write device drivers, etc and
the former because he wants to be able to put the buttons right where he
needs them.