The story behind this software started around September 2009, when my attention got caught by a post on emotiv’s forum (now gone; there is a new one, but the old posts are gone) where someone was asking for help with a locked-in person.
I was inspired and willing to do something helpful, simple and free, for all the people in need out there.
I started working on mindkeyboard with the free sdk that emotiv was offering. I got pretty far, but there was a problem. The emulator is just a proof of concept, nothing near a real emulator, so the experience with the actual device is totally different and my application wasn’t working at all with the epoc itself.
At this point, someone from emotiv come in help, offering to test my code with his headset and report back. His hope was to get mindkeyboard working before the launching of the epoc in order to bundle it with the headset as a demo application. I was totally cool with that, and actually happy too.
In this period the emotiv guy promised me support in various ways. I worked hard, but I couldn’t make it for the launch date.
Then, someone else come up with another virtual keyboard, that was working. That was the end of mindkeyboard.
I heard not a single word from emotiv anymore. I was also in contact with the guy who asked help on the forum, and he disappeared too. I wrote various mails to both, but no one ever answered me…
I know that the emotiv guy had what he was looking for, and hence he didn’t need me anymore. That’s the market law and i understand it. But don’t even answering to my mails feels really mean… anyway…
So, now… to fix the application I need the actual headset. I won’t buy the headset in the near future, for various reasons, not least because of emotiv’s bad behaviour.
So, the mindkeyboard project is dead. That’s it.
If anyone wants to take over, contact me on sourceforge or here, or via mail.
