1 dimensional Keyboard input for android, iOS, and arduino

[Kevin]

I don't remember if someone posted about this before, but I think it is interesting.

Especially considering an arduino and a resistive strip can or could create a keyboard input using only one analog arduino pin.

I also like the more immediately useful part about a keyboard for my android that does not take up the whole screen.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-minuum-keyboard-project

http://youtu.be/niV2KCkKmRw?t=1m37s

From their announcement:

"Now that we’re approaching our $60,000 stretch goal, we want to take a moment to reflect on what we hope to do with our wearable development kit (WDK). Many of you are supporting us because you’re looking forward to trying out the first beta release of our Minuum keyboard app for Android in June. But many more of you are even more excited about the future of typing that our simplified technology will enable – on all mobile devices, wearable and otherwise.

There are an unlimited number of ways that typing on a one-dimensional keyboard can let you type anywhere, or with anything (such as game controllers, watches, etc.). But each of these ways to type might be better suited to different users, in different situations. We won’t have the resources to develop and manufacture every single one of these devices, so we’re instead empowering the community to easily create personalized keyboards to share with the world. Our wearable development kit will allow people like you (that’s right, you!) to create whatever kind of keyboard you want, as easily as we showed at the end of our video. We’ve already heard great feedback about how people are looking ahead to building keyboards into their clothing, accessories, phone cases, or furniture, and to changing lives by developing custom keyboards for users with motor impairments. As the community works through this evolutionary process of developing and refining new ways to type, we’ll reach the best possible future of mobile typing imaginable, together.

And now the technical details: we’ll take care of all the work that will go into communicating between your custom keyboard device and your phone or computer, and we’ll do all the messy work of turning your imprecise typing into what you meant to say. You’ll be able to connect your custom keyboard via Bluetooth, Wi-fi, or USB, which will most often involve simply building your keyboard around an Arduino. We’ll release all of the code that makes this communication possible, so the community will be free to build and improve upon different ways of interpreting information from different kinds of sensors and transmitting it to our sloppy typing interpreter.

We’ll keep you posted with more updates, soon. Thanks,
Will

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