Keyboard

[SirOmega]

Adding a keyboard that attaches to the caanoo itself for all the PC emulators and web browser use? It could fold under or ontop of the screen if you understand what I am talking about.

 

[SolarLune]

You mean an onscreen keyboard? It could be possible - does anyone know if the output from the keyboard could be passed on to running programs?

 

[ozzuneoj]

He's asking about a physical keyboard add-on made for the Caanoo.

I highly doubt we'll see anything like that. It'd be cool I guess, but it'd be up to the community to design and manufacture it...

 

[dnlgreenwood]

Hey, You could plug something into the USB port, maybe modify an Xbox 360 Chatpad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_accessories#Messenger_Kit

 

[lewishallam]

Or you could use something like this link.

 

[ozzuneoj]

Hey, You could plug something into the USB port, maybe modify an Xbox 360 Chatpad:
http://en.wikipedia....s#Messenger_Kit

I don't think there is any software to make the chatpad work in Windows, let alone an open source platform. I remember looking into it for an HTPC setup a couple years ago.

 

[NickMB]

Well the Pro-Mini from Magic-Pro Computer could be used, it is small (a bit longer and less wide than the Caanoo itself), it is wireless but uses a USB receiver instead of Bluetooth (the Caanoo has a USB host), and it works with Linux (the Caanoo runs on a Linux based OS) so I'm guessing it might alredy work or could easily be fixed to pair with the Caanoo, now it's up to someone to test it, the only problem is it is 70 bucks (from ThinkGeek).