Introducing VeloKey, the keyboard for your bike.

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Let’s face it, indoor training kinda sucks.  But our friends at Zwift.com have made it suck a lot less.  Actually they made it kinda fun.  Zwift allows you to ride with real friends and cyber friends in a virtual world.  You interact with the environment with (besides your bike) a keyboard, a mouse and a phone app.  It is great as is, but we’ve come up with a more intuitive interface we call VeloKey.

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VeloKey is a Bluetooth interface to Zwift that consists of two a 1.8 inch dis,play thumbwheels, and a power up button.

VeloKey’s main screen allows you to navigate the Zwift world, and control the camera angles with ease.

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Double-click the right scrollwheel to kick into Etch-a-mouse mode: left thumbwheel controls left-right mouse motions and the right thumbwheel controls the up-down mouse movement.  Pressing either thumbwheel acts as a mouse button.  Press both button’s in succession to get a double click on the connected computer.

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Double click the left scrollwheel to activate the keyboard mode complete with caps, lowercase, letters and numbers, and don’t forget backspace.

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VeloKey make riding indoors even more fun!

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VeloKey is an Open Hardware project.  Download source files here.

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