foone , Englisch
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I want a macropad keyboard that's also kind-of a watch. Like, it's a macropad, but you wear it on your wrist/arm.

evilstevie ,
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@foone rii do a range of tiny wireless keyboards but the actual key-press actions are sucky.
maybe a raspi zero-w macro pad with a small lipo?

mikailborg ,
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@foone Hatsune Miku sleeves.

breuxi ,
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@foone Sounds cool! I once met a musician who had built something like that, also using rubber buttons and textile to make it flexible.

trevorflowers ,
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@foone Like, does it Bluetooth to a PC?

foone OP ,
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@trevorflowers yeah. Or RF to a receiver

trevorflowers ,
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@foone I guess it could use lora to something that acts like a USB keeb. With a good antenna on the receiver it might work all over your neighborhood.

PhotoSniperFox ,
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@foone So a Pip-Boy from Fallout?

I think you could actually make one without too much fuss. There's a tool called Touch Portal that can turn an Android device into a macro keypad, and it doesn't have to be physically connected to the computer, so there's nothing in the way of getting a small phone and making a strap for it.

I use it to quickly get photo editing tools.

https://www.touch-portal.com/

foone OP ,
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@PhotoSniperFox something like that, but I need physical buttons so it'll work without looking at it

scrottie ,
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@foone Wait... like this? Because I want this too. And the fact that these never went back in to production is proof that Nintendo has lost their cool.

Nintendo Power Glove, which very much looks like an astronaut thing, which given the NASA obsession of the 90's was probably the best marketing ploy ever, in a "space grey" medium-dark grey color with soft flexible plastic backing and small channels breaking up the plastic, about 15 of them per digit, backing a black nylon spandex glove, with a small but not that small black module with "power glove" written on it mounted on the back of the palm with a very heavily strain-reliefed connector connecting it to a Nintendo joypad looking thing mounted above and extend back from the wrist which is also black but with space grey plus shaped joypad and buttons on it. There are two rows of 12 extra buttons (can't quite read) that probably include select and start and five buttons by the joypad so it plausibly has all of the four NES joypad buttons. Then from that is yet another heavily train reliefed cord going back behind it and vanishing. Overlaied on a plain grey background (bit lighter grey than the space grey backing of the whole thing but very much looks like a studio staged photo or a Photoshop image cutout).
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    • foone OP ,
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    @scrottie basically, but no glove part. Just the wrist part

    funkylab ,
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    @foone something that causes key presses when the palm hits the forehead? Been there, wanted that.

    serapath ,
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    @foone or a wearabke keyboard?

    foone OP ,
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    @serapath nah. Those came up a lot when I looked for wearable keyboards. I want a keyboard that doesn't get in the way of my fingers

    serapath ,
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    @foone really?
    those came up a lot?
    wow. you definitely know how to search the internet i guess.

    i have NEVER seen a single wearable split keyboard and i am searching for years.

    This is my side project i am working on since forever, because of that.

    If you still have any of those links, let me know, definitely interested 🙂

    Otherwise - not really sure how a keyboard is supposed to not get into the way of your fingers - thought that's the point.

    But please shared if you find one

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