Comments on: Giant fabric keyboard

By: tony

tony — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:45:18 +0000

you know another good idea? the pet rock. the guy made a million dollars

By: burnmp3s

burnmp3s — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:09:52 +0000

This reminds me of an idea I’ve had for a long time. It would be a mat like this, but instead of letters it would have different conclusions on it. That way you could jump to different conclusions. A jump to conclusions mat!

By: Prince234

Prince234 — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:30:03 +0000

Nice blog, full of good infos, keep the good work going.

By: tjhow

tjhow — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:17:41 +0000

umm, why make this?

By: zigzagjoe

zigzagjoe — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:26:42 +0000

colour images scare me

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:38:23 +0000

Bizarre input device hacks?

How about removing the LED from an optical mouse, and placing a tiny mass of an alpha emitter next to the small CCD in there, then enclosing the device in something opaque? If the mouse cursor moves as a result, it might be a decent entropy source (if the Copenhagen Interpretation is correct, anyway).

I can understand why they chose an Arduino. The 16x8 matrix you need to work with to determine keypresses on a keyboard controller is cumbersome for projects that use only a few keys. This approach is simpler if you know how to get a microcontroller to spit out keyboard scancodes.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:42:05 +0000

why an arduino and not an ordinary salvaged keyboard controller? speaking of which, i’d like to see some bizarre input device hacks based on keyboard and mouse controllers.

By: Lelah

Lelah — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:21:25 +0000

I wonder why it isn’t QWERTY layout?

By: zinge

zinge — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:00:21 +0000

Could the same design/idea be used to build one of those giant floor piano/keyboards like they have at FAO Schwartz?