Looking for inexpensive wearable bluetooth device with a few buttons
Hi all,
New member here. Thought this'd be a good place to ask about this. I'm looking for some sort of inexpensive bluetooth device and my search is currently exploring bracelet-type devices. If I could wave a magic wand and have exactly what I wanted I’d have: a slap bracelet with 3 or 4 buttons on it that transmit bluetooth messages to a Mac that are detected as key presses or something.
I'm using a program by Cycling74 called Max, and it can detect (amongst other things) serial (e.g. bluetooth) device and human interface (e.g. keyboard, game controller, trackpad, etc.) device messages. All I need is numbers detected in Max when I press a button. Don't need watch or fitness functions, compass, accelerometer, fancy OS, apps, etc. or even a screen. Just a few buttons. Although, those other features wouldn't actually hurt if they didn't add too much to the price.
The Pebble watch, for example, has 4 buttons and now does bluetooth 4, but it's about $100. I'm hoping to find something cheaper. And I don't know whether those buttons transmit bluetooth messages. (Do they, anyone?)
Any ideas? Even ideas about other types of devices that are possibly suitable are most welcome.
Thanks in advance!
Cheers, Some Other Guy
Hi all,
New member here. Thought this'd be a good place to ask about this. I'm looking for some sort of inexpensive bluetooth device and my search is currently exploring bracelet-type devices. If I could wave a magic wand and have exactly what I wanted I’d have: a slap bracelet with 3 or 4 buttons on it that transmit bluetooth messages to a Mac that are detected as key presses or something.
I'm using a program by Cycling74 called Max, and it can detect (amongst other things) serial (e.g. bluetooth) device and human interface (e.g. keyboard, game controller, trackpad, etc.) device messages. All I need is numbers detected in Max when I press a button. Don't need watch or fitness functions, compass, accelerometer, fancy OS, apps, etc. or even a screen. Just a few buttons. Although, those other features wouldn't actually hurt if they didn't add too much to the price.
The Pebble watch, for example, has 4 buttons and now does bluetooth 4, but it's about $100. I'm hoping to find something cheaper. And I don't know whether those buttons transmit bluetooth messages. (Do they, anyone?)
Any ideas? Even ideas about other types of devices that are possibly suitable are most welcome.
Thanks in advance!
Cheers, Some Other Guy
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