Check out this carpet keyboard by Maurin Donneaud. It uses an Arduino board to gather input from the perforated foam contact switches which are activated by stepping on them! Via Ladyada AND Hack-a-day.
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this isn’t dvorak or qwerty, looks almost like polycotton
Yeah, come on guys, Qwerty that sucker!
…I used to really hate Speak’n’Spell for that!
Ok here it is in plain english.
Qwerty is what you know, so you think it makes sense. What you dont know is it was specifically set up to slow down typing.
You see back when KEYS were on typewriters, they had a problem with people typing too fast and causing the little arms with letters on them to stick together. Therefore instead of redesigning the internals of the typewriter they changed the order of letters.
It is a flawed design that was forced onto us by manufacturers stupidity and tradition. My hope is that one day stupid things like this will be a thing of the past. We need to stop just using what works and keep innovating.
If it was good enough for Sidney Blumenthal and Bob Woodward it’s good enough.
If it was good enough for Clark Kent, it’s good enough.
If its…oh hell just do it in Cyrillic ‘k?