tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89696568716534295872024-03-13T11:06:31.429-07:00KariboµtopiaPensées itinérantes sur un tas de trucs, politique, films, bouquins, et projets de bricolage, électronique ou autreIlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067858016991167127noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8969656871653429587.post-78718972670318129872014-02-09T09:21:00.001-08:002014-02-09T10:01:16.659-08:00Turning pages without moving too much, How to build a remote for the nook simple touch or NST<div lang="fr">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Waouh un deuxieme article! et totalement inutile pour 99% des gens! ... je l'ai mis là pour qu'il reste en ligne alors que les forums peuvent être capricieux... Mais il s'adresse surtout aux lecteurs des forums dédié au modèle de liseuse assez versatile que j'utilise.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">C'est donc un article en anglais sur comment j'ai fabriqué une télécommande pour pouvoir lire mes bouquins sans avoir a tourner la page sur ma liseuse... Cela ne fonctionne que sur le NOOK de Barnes and Nobles, on ne peut pas faire ça sur un kindle ou un kobo (en tout cas pas à ma connaissance) je n'ai donc pas pris la peine de le traduire en Français (personne n'a cette liseuse en france pour la bonne raison qu'elle n'est pas en vente ici...), s'il y a des intéressés qui ne lisent pas l'anglais, laissez moi un commentaire ou un mail et je prendrais le temps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Undemanding as reading can be, my Nook e-reader made my reading a much easier activity (light weight, one handed page turns etc) that even made it prefereable to most traditional books. But since I can be very lazy I still couldn't help thinking how nice it would be to just relax in my bed with my hands tucked behind my head and still be reading and turning pages...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">NB : This is an article about building a remote for a rooted Nook Simple Touch (and probably the nook Glowlight as well). It will not work on a device that doesn't have root access (like a factory default nook or a kindle or a kobo) or one tha doens't have USB host mode (if you have a nook but haven't got usb host mode all the info for that is found on <a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/BN_Nook_Simple_Touch/USB_host_mode">this wiki</a>) don't hesitate asking questions in the comments if need be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Reading without holding the book was easily solved, I bought a flexible smartphone stand from a chinese website (I was living in China at the time but you can probably find this kind of thing anywhere) and modified it to take a wider device such as an e reader. sorted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Reading without touching the book however was a bit trickier, I first thought about buying a microcontroler (essentially an arduino) with an usb port and building a usb remote from that (I'd seen a few articles online about people building usb buttons including <a href="http://makezine.com/projects/make-32/the-awesome-button/">an "awesome button" </a>which when pushed would insert a synonym of the word awesome in the text). I knew I could do it but it would cost me at least 15€ and many hours of learning how to program the thing. And then I thought, hey a regular keyboard can probably turn pages too... So I set up the USB driver and the USB host utility I found on the xda developpers forum board (my everlasting gratitude to the authors) <a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/BN_Nook_Simple_Touch/USB_host_mode">see here for usb host mode</a>. I launched coolreader (which is my reader app of choice and found that what I needed was the up arrow and the down arrow, much like browsing a website or anything else on a computer. <b>(it does'nt work on the stock reader app so if you want to build this remote you need to use coolreader)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I had my remote, now I just needed to make it smaller and get rid of the 106 extra keys on it... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So first I took my usb keyboard appart to figure out how that works, I expected an electronic board with a lot of little buttons soldered on it. It turns out it's much cooler than that : you get three transparent imprinted plastic sheets with different circuits on the bottom one and the top one. When you press a key, contact is made between the top and bottom sheets at this particular point. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The top sheet (if you pretend the keyboard is in normal position, its overturned in the pictures) has 8 circuits and the bottom one has 18 all leading to a connector each that's attached to the controler board (so the controller board has 26 connectors in all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you picked a random key and followed the circuit of the top sheet to the controler board, you would end up on one of the 8 connectors (and it you did the same thing on the bottom sheet you would end up on one of the 18 connectors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">so lets say we give a name to each connector we get</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">B1 B2 B3...B18 bottom sheet connectors</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Each key of the keyboard connects an A number to a B number, so "F5" is A2/B7 and "SPACE" is A6/B12</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Say you want a one-key keyboard for the space bar, all you need to do is to solder a button to make contact between A6 and B12.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That's it for the theory, but how do you know which connectors the keys are linked to?</span><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Down the rabbit hole: decoding the matrix</span></u></b><br />
<span style="color: #999999;">(the keyboard matrix is the referencing of each key as a connection of 2 circuits)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every keyboard is different, so you will need to take the red pill and decode that matrix... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I tried to take my electronic sheet and follow the circuit to the controler with the naked eye, but it's really too small so I only hurt my eyes, and ended up confusing the circuits. So I scanned each sheet in high definition, improved the contrast then zoomed in and traced the circuit with the pen tool (on the gimp or photoshop)*.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">*if you don't have a scanner you can use this program <a href="http://home.online.no/~llindga/kmm.htm">Keyboard Matrix Mapper</a> to try every combination of connectors with a paperclip until you find the ones you need, there is about 170 possible combinations, good luck ;o) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The program is useful anyway to check you have the right key (if SPACE is the key you want you can just use wordpad to check you've got it but if it's UP it's easier with a program that tells you "up" if you find the right connection)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I got that (A numbers)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And that (B numbers)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">SO! Now I know that :</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">UP <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>= B13(red) /A6(black)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I soldered my buttons on the controler board, adding a plug in between so I could easily change to a different remote if I decided to build one, maybe a foot triggered button who knows where laziness will take me next :o) I suppose you could as well rig it to a motion or noise detector to turn the page when you whistle (probably annoying but why not...)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I had a phone plug lying around so I used that for the connection to the actual remote, that's the big grey thing in the picture. (and I couldn't quite resist using a phone line to bypass the matrix)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On this picture the GND and Sense black cables are soldered together on the micro USB side of the cable but you can just as well join them on the other side (saves the trouble of opening up the micro usb plug)</span></td></tr>
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Even if you replace the cable, I still <span style="font-family: inherit;">strongly recommend buying an otg adapter as most times </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">the nook won't go to host mode unless you connect the adapter with nothing else attached (see troubleshooting section of the Host mode link above)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anything will do as long as it's a button of any kind attached to a cable with twice as many wires as buttons on your remote... what I used was the buttons on an old phone, which I cut away from the board: and the phone cable (be careful as some phone cables only have 3 wires, mine had 4 so all good)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ready to roll! you can see that the USB Host utility has picked up the remote (as a qwerty keyboard) and the key that has been pushed (dpad_DOWN).</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Its better to close coolreader before pluging the remote and start it again once it's recognized, otherwise it fails to reload the book (I think it may be because the book is on the sd card and not the internal memory).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I put a shortcut to task manager on my homepage to kill coolreader if I forgot to close it before plugging the remote and it gets frozen on the "loading document" page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This project looks like a lot of work compared to the end result, but let me tell you it was well worth the trouble. It's a awesome reading experience especially when you are tired or when your arms are sore!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That's all folks!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I hope this has been useful to some of you! (if you do it please give me your feedback!) and don't hesitate posting questions either here or <a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2642362">on the xda thread I created</a> (if anything's not clear...)</span><br />
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<p>Yo à tous! Pris d'un ennui vital et semble-t-il, d'une soudaine Blogomania j'ai décidé de commencer à écrire ici, de choses qui n'ont rien à voir avec ce que je vous raconte dans ilanoé-airlines.</p>
<p>Tout est dans la descriptions de la bannière : dès qu'il y aura plus variété dans les articles je ferai des catégories pour le plus grand plaisir de ceux qui aiment le bricolage mais qui n'en n'ont pas grand chose à faire du reste, même si c'est mal (et inversement c'est mal aussi).<p/>
<p>L'idée ici est moins de raconter ma vie que de partager des trucs que j'aime ou n'aime pas (dont des trucs que je fais moi même à l'occasion), ce qui peut-etre plus, ou moins personnel que de vous raconter mes vacances. <p/>
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<p>Anyway, j'espère que vous aimerez ou aimerez detester mes articles et que vous rirez/pleurerez/taperez du poing sur la table/hurlerez avec moi ou sur moi dans un futur proche.<p/>
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Kenavo camarades<br />
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<b>P</b><i>rout</i> <b>S</b><i>ournois</i>:<br />
Dans un prochain article je vous parlerai à loisir de ma liseuse de livres (dont j'avais déja fait l'apologie dans un article Ilanoé) et de tous les trucs sadiques que je lui ai fais et compte lui faire bientôt.
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<p>Yo everyone! I'm bored almost to life and apparently taken with a sudden Blogomania so I decided to start writing here about things that don't have much to do in Ilanoé Airlines.<p/>
<p>Everything is in the description below the (yet non-existant) banner : as soon as I get more content on here I'll set up categories so that the DIY addicts don't have to dig into other stuff if they don't want to, even if it's bad (and conversely, even if it's bad too).<p/>
<p>I guess the idea here is less to talk about me than just sharing stuff I like, including stuff I make (when I like it) which may or may not be more personnal than telling you about my holidays. <p/><br/>
<p>Anyway I hope you'll like the articles, or like to hate them, and comment and laugh and cry and shout with or at me in the near future.<p/>
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Fare thee well comrade reader!<br />
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<b>P</b><i>reemptive</i> <b>S</b><i>almon</i><br />
In a future article I'll tell you all about my e-reader (I already talked about in an Ilanoé article) and all the sadistic stuff I've been doing to it and will to it in the future.
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