====== Welcome to Chorder ======

| {{wire.jpg|my original wire chorder prototype}} |{{dsback.jpg?190 | my chorder since 1998}} |{{iswcinterview-chorder.png?190|}}|
| early prototype |  1998 version is still in daily use  ||

This website contains information on building and using a home made 7 key [[wp>chording keyboard]].

I have been using this device or one of its predecessors since the mid 1980's, by 1995 it has been a full function chorder and my primary keyboard with both [[http://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/top|Herbert]], my wearable computer and conventional desktop machines.((If we met on psk31 I was probably using it as well))  With the current version the chorder is now a usb keyboard and detected as a usb keyboard by the host computer.  This change has been made possible as a result of work done by [[http://symlink.dk/contact/contact.php |Mikkel Holm Olsen]] on the [[spiffchorder:forside|SpiffChorder]].  As a result of this change, any device that can support a standard usb keyboard //should// be able to use this alternative keyboard by just plugging it in.

/!Some of the instructions found here involve using sharp tools and soldering irons.  We make no claims as to the safety of such activities.!/  

Each project lists contact information for the person who created or maintains it.  Please use that information when inquiring about a particular project.

[[http://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/contact | Greg Priest-Dorman]]