Graham Sutherland / PolynomialFeb 22
"texting a message used to take a time approximately proportional to the sum of the alphabetical indices of the message's characters modulo 3" is one of those things that is absolutely true but also 100% sounds like a shitpost if you weren't around for that era.
Show threadChris BohnFeb 22

@gsuberland When I designed this board for use in my class, was multi-tap text entry an assignment I had in mind?

Yes. Yes it was.

Show threadMostlyBlindGamerFeb 22

@DocBohn @gsuberland

#alt4you

A red PCB with a RaspberryPi mounted to it has a 4 by 4 grid of buttons. The silkscreen labels them as the numbers 1 to 9 and star, zero and pound sign, including the phone keypad characters under the numbers, like A, B, C for the number 2. On a column to the right there are buttons for the letters A through D and math operation signs, making this board useful for typing hexadecimal numbers (star and pound are E and F), using it as a phone keypad and as a calculator keypad.

Show threadChris Bohn
@MostlyBlindGamer @gsuberland Thanks. Sorry about forgetting the alt text this time
Feb 23 at 12:27amWeb