01-28-2021, 04:42 PM
I know most of this discussion concentrates on keyboards, but as the initial "invitation to play along" blog also mentioned game pads:
A few month later, generic noname Asian clones have started appearing at the usual places (Aliexpress, eBay, Amazon). Some with little tweaks like a flexible USB-C connector (for easier coupling with the phone), others with separate USB-C charging passthrough and 3.5mm audio jack or even weird thing whose purpose I can't really understand (it's for the actual Nintendo Switch. But instead of using the Joycon conencter, it's connecting over USB-C? Why?!) These device tend to be expensive for now (specially the first one), but it shows that wired gamepads start to be a thing (Though these are USB-C gamepads, whereas the blog referred to using PinePhone's pogo pins (thus I2C + interrupt). So it remains to be seen how much this could help).
Means that Pine64 could approach such a manufacturer for producing a PinePhone edition of such a gamepad.
And to move back to the keyboard discussion: I really like the direction the design is getting (Psion-like).
@coniferous:
As someone who uses keyboards a lot to SSH into machine (command line) where I code (even more squigly signs) I really appreciate the attempts at craming most of the punctuations (the various type of parenthesis) directly on keys.
@CharlieGordon:
Also, as someone communicating in several different languages I like the proposal of having the compose key directly on the keyboard. (Though small suggestion, the ^ accented modifier would make a bit more sense directly under the "6 ^" key)
And in general I appreciate that Pine64 is thinking about making the firware flashable thus enabling alternative designs (as long as the number of keys fits, so saddly maybe not the squeeze extra punctuation keys
).
(07-29-2020, 08:09 AM)DrYak Wrote: For the GamePad:
- Razer Kishi (basically "Switch Joycon" clones for either USB-C android or Lightning port iOS) is definitely a good inspiration.
A few month later, generic noname Asian clones have started appearing at the usual places (Aliexpress, eBay, Amazon). Some with little tweaks like a flexible USB-C connector (for easier coupling with the phone), others with separate USB-C charging passthrough and 3.5mm audio jack or even weird thing whose purpose I can't really understand (it's for the actual Nintendo Switch. But instead of using the Joycon conencter, it's connecting over USB-C? Why?!) These device tend to be expensive for now (specially the first one), but it shows that wired gamepads start to be a thing (Though these are USB-C gamepads, whereas the blog referred to using PinePhone's pogo pins (thus I2C + interrupt). So it remains to be seen how much this could help).
Means that Pine64 could approach such a manufacturer for producing a PinePhone edition of such a gamepad.
And to move back to the keyboard discussion: I really like the direction the design is getting (Psion-like).
@coniferous:
As someone who uses keyboards a lot to SSH into machine (command line) where I code (even more squigly signs) I really appreciate the attempts at craming most of the punctuations (the various type of parenthesis) directly on keys.
@CharlieGordon:
Also, as someone communicating in several different languages I like the proposal of having the compose key directly on the keyboard. (Though small suggestion, the ^ accented modifier would make a bit more sense directly under the "6 ^" key)
And in general I appreciate that Pine64 is thinking about making the firware flashable thus enabling alternative designs (as long as the number of keys fits, so saddly maybe not the squeeze extra punctuation keys
).
