[Arm-netbook] usb keyboard, width about 15cm?

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From: Christopher Havel <laserhawk64 at gmail.com>
Apparently from: arm-netbook-bounces at lists.phcomp.co.uk
To: Eco-Conscious Computing <arm-netbook at lists.phcomp.co.uk>
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...
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