# Prior Art/Related Projects ### Other projects / Similar work / Inspiration * [The original RelayKeys from Harold Pimental](https://haroldpimentel.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/bluetooth-keyboard-switch-with-arduino/). * **bbx10** on the adafruit forums. **bbx10** developed the Ascii to HID translation function. A massive thanks - the code is currently mostly his. He also worked out some of the early problems on speed issues we were having. You can read the full thread [here](https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=53\&t=145081\&start=15). * [HID-Relay](https://github.com/juancgarcia/HID-Relay) from [juancgarcia](https://github.com/juancgarcia). Not really spent much time looking at this - but looks neat. Converts hardware keyboards to Bluetooth. * [232Key](https://www.232key.com/index.html) - Converts Serial devices to Keyboard. Kind of the other way round to what we want. * [BL\_keyboard\_RPI](https://github.com/quangthanh010290/BL_keyboard_RPI). Turns a Pi into keyboard emulator * [ESP32\_mouse\_keyboard](https://github.com/RoganDawes/esp32_mouse_keyboard). Uses a ESP32 as a mouse/keyboard over serial. Very similar idea. (See [issue 39](https://github.com/AceCentre/RelayKeys/issues/29)for details about this in relation to using VNC (TY [@RoganDawes](https://github.com/RoganDawes)) ### AAC projects * [MacroServerMac](http://github.com/willwade/MacroServerMac) was an attempt to create a Mac Port of "MacroServer" developed by [JabblaSoft](http://jabblasoft.com) for MindExpress . This is a protocol for communication over a TCP/IP stack. Its pretty nice - but if you are in a school or business allowing others machines to access the network in this way is often restricted. It can also be pretty flaky * [Liberator](http://liberator.co.uk) / [PRC](http://prentrom.com) - have the neatest commercial solution out there for AAC. You can either plug in a USB cable - or use a bluetooth dongle to connect with another computer. Its awesome - but sadly only available to you if use one of their devices. * [Dynavox](http://tobiidynavox.com) used to make the [AccessIT](http://www.spectronics.com.au/product/accessit). A similar idea but using infrared rather than radio/bluetooth. It was pretty expensive but a lot of people loved its simplicity. More recently they have brought this back to life with [AccessIT 3](https://www.tobiidynavox.com/products/accessit-3). Note it only works in Snap software - and not for any device. Just another windows device. You also need a USB port on the device you connect to. * The AAC world has been trying to create standards for this for years.. and some have succeeded. Check out [AACKeys](https://aacinstitute.org/aac-keys/) and the "GIDEI" protocol - which now feels a little outdated but a great attempt at standardising communication between AAC devices and other systems over serial. ### Non-disability related products * the [Buffalo BSHSBT04BK](http://buffalo.jp/product/peripheral/wireless-adapter/bshsbt04bk/) was pretty neat. You can still get this in Japan and does a very similar job * The [IOGEAR KeyShair](https://www.iogear.com/product/GKMB02) (now discontinued) looked like exactly the same dongle - but with different software. Both of these products though failed to respond to software (on-screen) keyboards reliably. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.acecentre.org.uk/products/relaykeys/developers/other-projects.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.