Mastodawn

I am a fan of #chorded #keyboards. Alas the "improved" TAP wrist-based keyboard get hot fast and crapped out on battery time quite quickly, so I was glad to still have the wearable all-fingers-and-thumb version still.

I wish I knew how to program a keyboard to my own specs: #TAPkeyboard has a pretty decent chord system BUT users must be capable of hovering the hand prior to pressing on any horizontal flat surface, and I'd far prefer to be able to rest my fingers on keys until pressed.

Also: I LOVE typing in #Braille which is a two-handed chorded system BUT I only have access to a manual #brailler not a digital, which isn't helpful with digital devices no matter how lovely it is to use. 🙂

#disability
#accessibility
#keyboards
#typing
#UIX

akavel Mar 3, 2025

My recent build of a #chorded #keyboard, a clone of Chordite. Work-in-progress firmware in #rust and (still some) C at: https://github.com/akavel/chordite-rust

Planned next steps:
- practicing actually typing on it... (the hardest one);
- tweaking and "improving" the layout and functionalities (a neverending story?) - interested in anyone who might somehow help make some sensible one given the constraints of the device;
- hopefully adding mouse functionality based on a gyroscope module (some "MPU6050" board is on its way) - will it work fine enough?
- maybe one day wireless through BLE?

Once I have the mouse functionality built and added, my main goal is to try and be using it with #XReal One glasses I bought recently.

Thanks @rahix for avr-hal; thanks @PaulStoffregen for #teensy; thanks John W. McKown for creating #Chordite, thanks @rustembedded for helping make Rust on embedded possible; thanks my amazing friend for soldering it for me, and thanks many others for many other things.

#theWorkshop #chordedkeyboard #atmega32u4 #avr