Thread: Eleksen ElekTek Fabric Keyboard
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fanoush is offline fanoush
2008-11-25 , 08:42
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Originally Posted by santa_matt View Post
And before you start I already know the disadvantages of a fabric keyboard but for $20 it was too good to not try.
What are the disadvantages? How does it feel? How usable it is? Except the missing driver issue of course ;-)

Originally Posted by santa_matt View Post
Getting back to kbdd, I am willing to do the work if I can get a bit of information. I have downloaded the source code and it seems pretty straight forward. What cross compiler does everyone recommend? I have Windows XP, Ubuntu 8 and Mac OS9. This may be my opportunity to get started in developing for the Nokia platform.
Well the maemo SDK inside scratchbox inside vmware is perhaps the easiest environment for full development. For quick and dirty things you can use almost any arm gcc toolchain that produce EABI binaries. Maemo uses 3.4.4cs2005q3.2 from Codesourcery.

BTW current kbdd has debug option which prints all received data. Also once keyboard is configured something like 'od -x /dev/rfcomm0' works too. Or even hyperterminal in windows can work too.
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Last edited by fanoush; 2008-11-25 at 08:45.