geteilt von: https://feddit.de/post/3048730
Github link: https://github.com/Dakkaron/Fairberry
Here's a video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDb8_ld9gOQ
I've been using it for almost two years now, and I'm not going back.
It's based on a spare Blackberry Q10 keyboard and a custom Arduino-compatible board that reads the keyboard matrix and outputs it as USB HID to the phone. From the viewpoint of the phone, it's just a regular USB keyboard, so no special software is needed.
But I do use a custom virtual keyboard to have just two rows of symbols that are not natively on the keyboard, as I didn't want to add another layer of rarely used symbols that I'd have to memorize.
(On the image you can see Ubuntu with XFCE4 running on it. I chose Ubuntu because it's what was easiest to get running in a chroot jail on the phone. I'm using VNC to display the GUI. I even managed to get FEX (x86/x64 emulator) and Wine running, so it runs x86/x64 Linux and Windows apps.)
I would love an foldable case with a keyboard on one side. Like a little Laptop. Would be so neat.
Edit, something like this:
That looks absolutely perfect! Man I miss real keyboards on phones
The only thing on the market that kinda resembles this is the keyboard for the Pinephone. I've been considering hacking one of these and making them compatible with other phones.
Or the Gemini PDA/Fxtec Pro1-X.
These are not attachments, that's why I didn't reference them.
Ah, valid point.