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

[Christopher Havel]

"This item is discontinued" >.<

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 4:48 PM, <ronwirring at safe-mail.net> wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> 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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