[geeks] new keyboard goodness

[Shannon]

On Apr 20, 2011, at 01:18 , der Mouse wrote:

>> Also even with hacks and special drivers, I don't think anyone has
>> ever managed NKRO with USB.
>
> If not, it's because of laziness or incompetence; there is no reason
> whatsoever it couldn't be done.  Report a bitmap of keys down instead
> of <=6 keycodes of keys down and at most you need a custom driver on
> the host.  Heck, I could do it myself by just sticking a USB target
> mode interface in front of a SBC - or SOC - to which I then connect the
> keyboard, though that would be serious overkill except for a
> proof-of-concept.

I think you'd find ready buyers for your solution if it really worked. There
is a lot of drive in the industry to solve this issue, and I suspect you'll
find it harder than you are currently thinking, or someone already would have.
I know this industry is full of morons, but I doubt that's the only or even
primary obstacle, at least not directly.

I think if I knew how to solve this for the industry I'd be working on it
pretty hard right now.

I see a lot of obstacles to this that have nothing to do with laziness or
incompetence, and that's assuming the solution would really work well with
currently common USB software and hardware.

I know that just in the last year there have been several different
controllers, matrices, and drivers trying to solve this. None worked very
well.


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Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com