Collaborate Disseminate
Long before the idea of hot dog-shaped iPhone cases, Otter Boxen, or even those swappable Nokia face plates, people were just as likely to express themselves with their landline phones. …read more Continue reading The Case for Designer Landline Phones
Where has the year gone? It’s already summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and the second Challenge of the 2022 Hackaday Prize ends this weekend, along with your chance at one …read more Continue reading 2022 Hackaday Prize: Reuse, Recycle, and Revamp All the Things
What’s the most important part of the keycap? The average user-who-cares might tell you it’s the look and feel, but a keyboard builder would probably say the mounting style. That’s …read more Continue reading Wooden Keycaps Minus the CNC
Competition sure brings out the brute in people, doesn’t it? So what do you do when you need a bunch of switches you can let people fist-pound or stomp on …read more Continue reading Surprisingly Stomp-able Soft Switches
We all have those gnarly hacks that we still think about years after we first saw them. For serial tipster [Inne], one of those is [Patrick Baudisch]’s soap mouse, which …read more Continue reading Soap Mouse Is a Slippery Interface for Mid-Air Input
Keyboards with wells like the Maltron, the Kinesis Advantage family, and everything dactyl-esque out there are great. Trust us, we know this firsthand. But if you want to build your …read more Continue reading Cityscape Multi-Level Keyboard Really Stacks Up
Some of the hacks we see make us wonder why they aren’t already a commercial product, and this electric toothbrush turned rechargeable flashlight is one of them. Sure, these things …read more Continue reading Toothbrush Goes from Mouth-Whitening to Room-Brightening
Macropads are great to have around for hotkey input, but things can get out of hand pretty quickly when you realize just how many shortcuts are in your life. To …read more Continue reading Console Macropad Uses SD Cards for Stylin’ and Profilin’
If there’s any one thing that the average hacker is short on at a given moment (besides chips), it’s transient small part storage. Just as new projects are built from …read more Continue reading Bottoms Up: Soda Can Help with Almost Any Project
It was a melancholy Monday this week in the Big Apple as the last public payphone was uprooted from midtown Manhattan near Times Square and hauled away like so much …read more Continue reading NYC Hangs Up Its Last Pay Phone