08-20-2021, 03:23 PM
> Pogo ? Keyboard ?
Yeah like many thin tablet keyboard covers. My Eve V has that kind of keyboard (and the keyboard itself is infamously poor quality, but I think the pogo flex-circuit connector design is OK), my Acer Switch 7 has one, pretty sure it's common on Windows tablets. I wish the pinouts were standardized and I could make a nice keyboard that would work with all these devices. Here's one... maybe there is some sort of ad-hoc standard since they aren't advertising which device it's for, it just says 5-pin USB: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/P...62798.html another one like that: https://www.ecvv.com/product/4843197.html "Windows Pogo 5 Pin" as if it's a standard. But the Acer has 5, the Eve has 6. The first device I found that had pogo contacts was the Nexus 7 2012; but they used them for power and audio I think, not USB, which was silly. I never got the overpriced dock for it.
> Does the work to create a keyboard for the PinePhone could be used ?
Probably, but isn't that a tiny keyboard? I want something like an Atreus or Lily58 layout. I will make a laptop-sized board that has a good angle for each half of the keys, as if it was a split keyboard. Will use choc switches probably.
> A simple cable between the PinePhone's keyboard and the PineNote could be adequate. A modification of the keyboard could be necessary.
No that's probably what we will end up with, because the current design has only a USB port and nothing else. But cables stick out and tend to get bumped, stressing the connector each time. So then you end up wanting the lowest-profile right-angle USB type C connector that you can find, and that's also hard to find.
Or Bluetooth, of course, that's another fallback, but somewhat less reliable than a wired connection. I sometimes use a BT keyboard with my Eve because the original keyboard is so bad.
Yeah like many thin tablet keyboard covers. My Eve V has that kind of keyboard (and the keyboard itself is infamously poor quality, but I think the pogo flex-circuit connector design is OK), my Acer Switch 7 has one, pretty sure it's common on Windows tablets. I wish the pinouts were standardized and I could make a nice keyboard that would work with all these devices. Here's one... maybe there is some sort of ad-hoc standard since they aren't advertising which device it's for, it just says 5-pin USB: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/P...62798.html another one like that: https://www.ecvv.com/product/4843197.html "Windows Pogo 5 Pin" as if it's a standard. But the Acer has 5, the Eve has 6. The first device I found that had pogo contacts was the Nexus 7 2012; but they used them for power and audio I think, not USB, which was silly. I never got the overpriced dock for it.
> Does the work to create a keyboard for the PinePhone could be used ?
Probably, but isn't that a tiny keyboard? I want something like an Atreus or Lily58 layout. I will make a laptop-sized board that has a good angle for each half of the keys, as if it was a split keyboard. Will use choc switches probably.
> A simple cable between the PinePhone's keyboard and the PineNote could be adequate. A modification of the keyboard could be necessary.
No that's probably what we will end up with, because the current design has only a USB port and nothing else. But cables stick out and tend to get bumped, stressing the connector each time. So then you end up wanting the lowest-profile right-angle USB type C connector that you can find, and that's also hard to find.
Or Bluetooth, of course, that's another fallback, but somewhat less reliable than a wired connection. I sometimes use a BT keyboard with my Eve because the original keyboard is so bad.