geteilt von: https://feddit.de/post/3048730

Github link: https://github.com/Dakkaron/Fairberry

Here’s a video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDb8_ld9gOQ

I’ve been using it for almost two years now, and I’m not going back.

It’s based on a spare Blackberry Q10 keyboard and a custom Arduino-compatible board that reads the keyboard matrix and outputs it as USB HID to the phone. From the viewpoint of the phone, it’s just a regular USB keyboard, so no special software is needed.

But I do use a custom virtual keyboard to have just two rows of symbols that are not natively on the keyboard, as I didn’t want to add another layer of rarely used symbols that I’d have to memorize.

(On the image you can see Ubuntu with XFCE4 running on it. I chose Ubuntu because it’s what was easiest to get running in a chroot jail on the phone. I’m using VNC to display the GUI. I even managed to get FEX (x86/x64 emulator) and Wine running, so it runs x86/x64 Linux and Windows apps.)

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I’m surprised that there isn’t already a simple thumb keyboard with a USB-C plug at the top that you can just buy on Amazon. I would think that what you’ve done here would be super helpful for lots of people.

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      1 year ago

      I would love an foldable case with a keyboard on one side. Like a little Laptop. Would be so neat.

      Edit, something like this:

      iPhone_5_Keyboard_Case-e1403108526375