Build a Chorder

With the spiffchorder you are free to put any kind of key switches on any kind of surface or material and make it a chorder.  Plastic, leather and cloth have been successfully used as the base materiel and a variety of items ranging from conventional keyboard switches to conductive fibers have been used for the “buttons”. 

If your palm or hand held pim can take a usb keyboard, then build a cradle for it out of plastic or leather that has a built in chorder.  Now you can enter notes or other text with the hand that is holding the pim!  Your other hand is free or you can use it with the stylus.

Office supply stores may still have plastic shoulder phone rests. These often fit well in the hand and can make a nice base to build a chorder on top of. I did a version of this in June of 2001. At this time my chorder was a combination of a cheap keyboard board and a kernel module. That build is documented at https://www.chorder.org/~priestdo/chordhack/phonerest/. It is leather that is then brushed with hot bee's wax.

A Leather in hand chorder build from 1998. https://www.chorder.org/~priestdo/keygrip-template-small The templates and a finished picture. With a current spiff or feather you could put all the hardware into the leather box and still make the box smaller.

2009-03-build In 2009 we built some VHS case chorders like I used at the first IWSC in 1997, only this time using the spiffchorder.

2010-03-leather In 2010 I made a leather desktop spiffchorder. This later become the model for the 3d printer plans.

Some builds from before the spiffchorder. But any of these could be used with the spiffchorder or featherchorder.