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Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 4012 Location: Heart of Texas

Also came across a idea to place autocomplete 'speech' buttons on the far left of the keyboard Left of the (F1,ESC,TAB...) so that after a key press the next logical group of 6 auto completes would serve as the row selectors.

[SAY ] [F1][F2]....
[AUTOCOMP1] [ESC][1][2][3]...
[AUTOCOMP2] [TAB][Q][W][E]..
[AUTOCOMP3] [CRL][A][S][D]...
[AUTOCOMP4] [SHIFT][Z]..

As to not waste too much time row select would start on the extreme right of the Autocomplete button when switching to column mode. That would also keep the cursor movement at a known starting area and the keyboard from wiggling about.

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 4012 Location: Heart of Texas

Also If the Say Button is pressed the top 5 used speech (autocomplete or user chosen to be there) would be available if first time into the keyboard after switching from radar

greengeek

greengeek · Posted: Fri 16 Aug 2013, 04:18 Post subject:

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 4012 Location: Heart of Texas

I had my laptop with switchpup booting via USB flashdrive, but the DR was wanting to see MouseCam (my laptop did not have internet) and I had burned a few copies of both to DVD's to handout.

greengeek · Posted: Tue 20 Aug 2013, 14:01 Post subject:

Atle · Joined: 19 Nov 2008 Posts: 598 Location: Oslo, Norway

for a testrun on puppy linux for a person that can use joystick only?

I see there are several solutions available, but i hope for a hint on what is the best puppy solution and also if there are other Linux distroes that will be good for a joystick user.

best

Atle

greengeek · Posted: Sun 01 Sep 2013, 16:40 Post subject:

Updated first post on page 1 to include a new version of Radar_firstrun that is based on Pemasu's "Upup_Raring_3.9.9.2" which seems to be very stable on my hardware.

Ted Dog - I am very keen to hear if this version improves booting on any of your machines...
(You were after a non-Precise version so this is an alternative to try. I will try basing other versions on other puppies later)

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 4012 Location: Heart of Texas

Thanks for changing the base, the md5 is missing from your post.
This is what mine ended up as:

greengeek · Posted: Wed 04 Sep 2013, 03:50 Post subject:

Thanks Ted Dog, I do get the same md5 and have now updated the first post accordingly.

Keen to hear if the Upup Raring version behaves any better on your hardware as I don't want to add any extra features till I know I have a suitable base...

cheers.

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 4012 Location: Heart of Texas

Yeah, me too, lol, I've been up playing with the alpha release of ARM puppy (fatdog) since that is the final puzzle into getting this effort into the least costly device possible, which brings up a point on who else would be developing this into ARM hardware. Was looking into OLPC project to provide hardware, would you be interested in enrolling into this project, there already is an active puppylinux group (which I never knew existed until last night,like a super secret club where the uber cool coders hangout) that port puppylinux into OLPC hardware.
But a last, like middle school cool kids, I got directed to start a different project rather than riding on this groups coat tails. Mad

greengeek · Posted: Wed 04 Sep 2013, 05:07 Post subject:

I've seen mavrothals work on the olpc project but ive not seen any of those devices in NZ. Is that primarily a south american device?

Once Ive got switchpup working to a satisfactory level I thought it would be neat to get it going on a raspberry pi or A10/A20 or similar. The more portable it is the better...

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 2883

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 4012 Location: Heart of Texas

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 1016 Location: UK

Hi Ted Dog,

What about a (battery powered) HDMI pico projector?

http://www.personalprojector.co.uk/pico-genie-p100.html