There was a product very similar to this in the late 1980s. My uncle invested in the company. But it flopped. I am sorry I cannot remember the name. I do remember skilled typists could use it at least as fast as 2 hand traditional typing.

Nice work! I'm happy to see that some folks are still interested in wearable computing.

The Twiddler gives me hand cramps, so I might give this one a shot. (It's low on the pile, however.)

Dude, this is so cool! I've had something like this floating around my cluttered headspace for ages, and it always sort of floats to the surface during the rare times when I do some light sysadmin work via Termux on my phone.

Another thing that jumps to mind is the minichord[1], a nominally open-source synth/instrument.

I just love seeing these little devices people can come up with given the proliferation of the necessary devboards and tools. Nice project.

Not a new thing. Twiddler is on version 4. https://www.mytwiddler.com/

I had a similar idea when apple vision pro came out, to be able to code while laying on a couch or bed fully relaxed, but never got to doing it. Neat!

Very nice work. Might not hurt to throw in a few more pictures that illustrate the steps in the build process.

This is peak hacker. I love this. I love that it's COTS components, I love that the contoured bit is clay. An efficient build.

What sort of typing speed do you reach with it?

Maybe record a short video with the hand typing in the foreground and a screen in the background. To give an idea of the typing effort and speed.

Cool! Did you consider using more compact keys and caps?

great job showing this, inspiring!

I want this not for typing all the letters and numbers, but just the keyboard shortcuts to play Empire Earth V4 VR

- until that fantasy materializes maybe enough typing for an Age of Empires type game without being stuck at a full keyboard,

something like this maybe the perfect in-between ps4 controller and full keyboard for many things.

awesome

I would love to see a video of this in action.

I want a pen shaped gyroscopic mouse to use while watching/interacting with stuff through AR glasses, just needs to point click, right click & two buttons for custom keystrokes

Check out this design: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20030179178A1/en

Just don’t go introducing yourself as a one handed typist.

I had vague ideas, a few years ago, of integrating a keyboard into the handlebar of a recumbent tricycle (it would need to not interfere with braking, but there’s a fair bit of leeway left for useful design). Modelling clay had indeed not occurred to me! Nor had I realised how chorded keyboards could hook directly to GPIO pins. If I’d seen this back then, I probably would have gone ahead and prototyped something right away. Alas for this vision (though not alas in general!), I got married instead and my long-distance cycling days are behind me. But I’m still rather tempted to play with this, it looks fun and surprisingly straightforward, even if I can’t immediately see a good practical purpose in my life. Just last week I happened to see a box of epoxy modelling clay and wondered what it would be like to use… though I suspect it might harden too quickly for this.

- cost function for layouts?! awesome

- play doh

- IMU would be incredible

- less key version is good idea

Add this to the list of “18650 cells being incorrectly used as removable batteries”. At this point the sale of those battery holders should be banned…

I always wanted dual gloves like this so I could essentially tap on my legs while sitting down.

Great to see someone trying to innovate. It's surprising humans haven't come up with a better input method than an old school keyboard. Who would have thought that a typewriter from 1874 would still be so visible on a modern Macbook!

Surely, there has to be a better way.

As I hate tapping on glass, mistyping non-stop, I’m always evaluating options. This is an awesome project and a great write up, but we want more! :) Please consider published a video so we might see it in action (also showing the build process would be appreciated).

Cute. I use a Bluehand (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/08/08/1230) and have often thought it would be nice to not have to set it down someplace...

love the design, it would be crazy if this becomes a thing!

Bravo! Apparently they are known as keyers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyer#Computer_interface_keyer...

Edit: Circa 1980 when I was young and impressionable, my father's buddy had a WriteHander and since then I have loved this kind of thing.

http://ibnteo.klava.org/keyboard/writehander

Bending fingers so much during use is bad for your tendons and ligaments.