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by jauntywundrkind 887 days ago
lilygo has been killing it for a while now with great small embedded devices.

The keyboard plus ultra small typing screen is a super neat idea.

I do wish the key card here also had the pointer pad too, but still a great offering. seen a bunch of these but usually without case, and the price here (<$19) is pretty fine.

This post also is a sad reminder that I haven't used or been even semi fluent in my Twiddler for nearing a decade now. Now that was the ideal ubiquitous computer keyboard, if you can overcome the arduous learning curve.

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> overcome the arduous learning curve

Oh man. This reminds of the end of my developer career. I moved over to management because of awful RSI but in a desperate attempt to keep typing I learned the AlphaGrip. If I can master that thing, I can master anything!

http://www.alphagrip.com/

Check out tindie - there is a solder party blackberry keyboard with a track pad. No display. If the display is important to you, then look at the TTGO-deck - a larger device but it has both keyboard & pointer.
These things have unfortunately been sold out for a while. Not only that, if I wanted to use the BBQ20 with my phone I'd have to connect it to a BLE chip and a battery which is way more hacking than I wanted to do on this project.
Or get it on Lectronz, they also feature Solder Party's products.