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Show HN: The Handler: My Eight Key Handheld “Dream” Keyboard

• xhkkffbf 4y ago
  I love these experiments. There's no reason we can't do better than the old typewriters and the QWERTY layout.
  • gtrevorjay 4y ago
    What's really invigorated everything is cheap microcontrollers and USB/bluetooth. That lets you take your weird layout with you instead of depending on soft remapping.
• jacobn 4y ago
  Neat device! How do you actually type on it? Chords? Separate layout shifting control? Other??
  • gtrevorjay 4y ago
    Arduix uses chords but QMK has a more advance system it calls combos where it detects keypresses that are pressed sufficiently close together. There are actually layout shifts on top of that as well, so--for example--you can layout shift to "nav mode" and be able to use the arrows as single keypresses. There's a similar mode for using the keyboard as a mouse. [edit] Here's a link to a reference sheet for Artsey.io, of which Ardux is a fork, it gives you a pretty good idea for how the board is used in practice: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artseyio/artsey/main/layout%20diagrams/current.jpg https://raw.githubusercontent.com/artseyio/artsey/main/layou...