Asterisk + Javelin + BYOK

As an update to last week's post, where I got my Jarne Blade working on the BYOK via Bluetooth, jganiyu has now developed new firmware for the Asterisk that enables it to write to the BYOK via USB! Very exciting!!

Steno on the BYOK!

The latest firmware on the BYOK single purpose writing device works with the Jarne Blade via Bluetooth!! I haven't managed to get any of my wired Javelin devices like the Uni or Asterisk working, and my Jarne was out of charge, but this is huge for me! I'm starting a writing intensive in mid-October to write about a dozen new scenes for my novel after the dev edit I did last summer, and being able to use the Jarne Blade with my BYOK is gonna be so fantastic!

Steno Conference Meetups

I just learned of an open steno meetup that happened at the MRMCD conference in Germany earlier this month! How cool! Anyone know of any others??

Wide Keys

I asked the Plover Discord what to blog about today, and one person suggested wide keys. I hadn't really thought of them much before. I always just get wide DZ, wide Rs, double wide asterisks. But maybe other people have other opinions? I'd be interested to hear them, if so.

Steno with Kids!!

I spent like two hours this morning going over steno theory with my 10-year-old this morning! I've tried a few times before, but it's never really clicked. This time it definitely seemed to click! We're both enthusiastic to continue. Anyone have any tips or tricks for teaching steno for kids? We also want to try building a steno learning game in Scratch together, so tips on that would be very welcome too!

Plover v5.4.1 Released!

Plover v5.4.1 has been released!

Omron ThumbsUp

Check out the GitHub for the Omron ThumbsUp! by ak66666. I got a trial unit of one of these (not sure which version) and the angles of the keys didn't really work for me, but it's a really cool design, and I love that it's open source!