https://github.com/pib/gkos

An implementation of the GKOS keyboard standard
https://github.com/pib/gkos

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An implementation of the GKOS keyboard standard

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pib/gkos
• Owner: pib
• License: mit
• Created: 2010-01-11T20:36:45.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2010-01-21T08:34:28.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-02T16:46:38.591Z (3 months ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage: http://probablyprogramming.com
• Size: 83 KB
• Stars: 10
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.markdown
  • License: LICENSE

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From [the official GKOS website](http://gkos.com/)

> GKOS - a new category of full-featured physical keyboards:

>

> Not QWERTY, not exactly Wearable  -  but for Small Wireless Devices!

The basic idea of GKOS is that you've got six buttons on the back of a

device (either a dedicated input device, or on the back of a handheld

computing device, phone, etc), one for the index through ring fingers

of each hand (or two for each finger if you have a device made for

one-handed use). You press the keys in various chords to type, switch

between modes, and operate a pointer (when in pointer mode).

This project is an implementation of GKOS for Linux (and soon to be

for AVR microcontrollers), made mostly so I can try out GKOS for

myself.

The Linux version (currently the only version), takes over a standard

USB HID keyboard (most likely a USB number pad) via

[libhid](http://libhid.alioth.debian.org/), and uses 6 of its keys to

function as a GKOS keyboard, sending keypresses via

[libsuinput](http://github.com/tuos/libsuinput/). It will be

configurable (right now it's "configurable" by changing a couple of

lines in main-linux.c) at some point in the near future.

The AVR version will work together with

[V-USB](http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html) and/or

[LUFA](http://www.fourwalledcubicle.com/LUFA.php) to implement an

actual HID keyboard/mouse, and therefore won't need drivers for any

OS.

The current implementation has the basic key scanner implemented

(meaning you have to let go of all keys before a keypress is sent),

with nearly all of the characters in the spec implemented (a few

international ones aren't done because they aren't things that can be

typed by just sending a keycode or SHIFT+keycode, I'll add in Compose

support at some point, probably to make those work).