What is Pegasus Scribble

Pegasus Technologies manufactures a digital pen, which can be used in three different ways:

• Connected to a computer, it can function as a mouse pointer.
• Connected to a computer, it can also send XY coordinates, which can be used in custom applications, for example a note taking software.
• Disconnected from the computer, the device can be attached to ordinary paper and will record notes a user writes on that paper. Several pages can be stored this way on the device and be downloaded afterwards to the PC for reading and editing.

Pegasus Technologies offers applications for Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX, but not for Linux. However, they made the communication protocol public.

Pegasus Scribble uses this information to implement a software for linux. It consists basically of two parts:

• A low-level library for communicating with the device over USB, using libusb. Other developpers can use this library to create other applications.


• A custom application, based on the just described library, which allows to use the functionality provided by the hardware under Linux:
  
  - Usage as an ordinary mouse
  - A custom note taking application which stores it's pages in .ps format
  - Downloades stored notes from the device
  - Erase stored notes on the device
  - Switch between mouse and pen mode
  

Download the latest version of Pegasus Scribble from sourceforge

Pegasus Scribble is open source and licensed under GPL. The authors are in no way connected to Pegasus Technologies.