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It’s all free (if you make it yourself) and open source.
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The Onscreen keyboard still being visible would bother me so bad
It doesn’t have to be. I actually use a custom onscreen keyboard that just shows special characters that aren’t on the keyboard.
But you can just as easily tell the phone to hide the onscreen keyboard if the physical one is attached. Just a checkbox that needs to be toggled.
Yeah, back in the day when you could actually still buy phones with keyboards.
Did you wake up from a coma from the 2000s and are trying to bring back Blackberry phones and PDAs? If so, I am all for it.
Almostˆˆ My Droid 4 died in 2016 and that sent me on a ~6 year quest to design a decent keyboard attachment for my phone.
That is amazing. I miss the tactility of real life keys and less mistakes made with them compared to onscreen keys.
I don’t know why but my brain decided to bookmark this comment. I like the cutnod your jib and I wish in this moment lemmy had the KBin feature of upvotes AND boosts
This looks really cool. Would you be open to selling a fully functional unit?
No, sadly not. Weirdly enough, it’s a mental load thing. But I’d be very happy if anyone wants to make and sell these. No problem with someone else making a profit off that project.
I don’t have any questions, just wanted to say this is cool.
Pretty neat, I likey 👍. Looks impressively slim too, especially being a DIY thing
I’d love to see that for an iPhone.
It is actually iPhone (theoretically) iPhone compatible. Just hasn’t been tested.
You just need a Lightning OTG connector instead of the USB C OTG one, and you need to adjust the case to fit the iPhone.
That’s super cool.
Thanks!
What emoji did you use here? Can’t see it on my Android ☹️
I didn’t use any emoji, but I will now: :-)
This is awesome!
I’m pretty sure my first android phone was the Droid and it had a physical keyboard underneath the screen, which slid out to reveal the keyboard. Since on-screen keyboard was also an option, the only time I used the physical keyboard was when I remembered it was an option that I never used.
That may have been different if keyboard shortcuts worked on it. (I don’t know if they did or not, but if they did I didn’t know about it back then)
I didn’t have a Droid 1, but I heard it’s keyboard sucked.
I had an HTC Universal, with a keyboard that was so huge that it effectively masked how bad the keys themselves were.
I then had a Droid 3, which was much better and then a Droid 4 which was the sweet spot. I had Linux in a chroot (still do), and it was an almost desktop-like experience with the 5-row keyboard and the touchscreen acting as a trackpad. It was really good.
I tried making different side-sliding attachments, but these are always chunky, center of balance is always terrible and you need to use Bluetooth, which also sucks.
So I ended up sticking a Blackberry keyboard to my phone. I still wish I had a landscape keyboard, but this is the best I could come up with so far.
I’ve been wishing for such a thing for a long time. That looks great!
Thanks!
That’s pretty cool, how difficult do you think it would be for someone with no prior experience in soldering to pull it off?
If you watch some soldering tutorials (specifically for QFN packages, they have the same pin spacing). But what would make it much easier is if you find a local maker space. They are usually willing and able to help with stuff like that. Alternatively, you can get any laptop repair shop to do it for you. They can do that pretty easily and it won’t cost much.
Thanks for the tips!
Any time! If you need help, just ask me!
Damn, I’m gonna look more like a dork than I already do
We’ve finally done it, we’ve come full circle back to Blackberry phones.
If Blackberry doesn’t make phones any more, the community will have to fill that void.
What convinced you to do this?
