Collaborate Disseminate
Depending on the circles you run in, it can seem like the mechanical keyboard community is all about reduced layouts, and keebs without ten-keys are about as big as it gets. But trust us, there’s plenty of love out there for the bigger ‘boards like [Ben]’s tasty fat-bottomed keyboard. Man …read more
Continue reading Fat Bottomed-Keebs, You Make the Clackin’ World Go Round
While nobody could deny that computing technology has some a long way in the last few decades, there are many out there who believe peak keyboard was sometime before the turn of the new millennium. The prefer the look, feel, and especially the sounds, of those classic keyboards to what …read more
While I may have fallen in love aesthetically with the ErgoDox I built, beauty is only skin deep. And that’s funny, because you can see right through it. But the thing is, it’s just too big and knife-edged to be my daily driver. I keep missing the space bar and …read more
Continue reading Inputs of Interest: Curves Are the Key to My Type
If you’re looking to add some realism to your flight setup without converting the guest bedroom into a full-scale cockpit simulator, you might be interested in the compromise [MelkorsGreatestHits] came up with. He bolted a genuine military keypad to his PC joystick and instantly added 100% more Top Gun to …read more
Continue reading Up Your Game With a Battle Tested Input Device
Ever wonder why keyboard number pads and telephone dials have reversed layouts? Theories abound, but the most plausible one is that, shrug, it just happened that way. And now we’re stuck with it.
Well, that answer’s not good enough for [Jesse], so he punched up his own keyboard design that combines the golden years of function-rich Sun and IBM keyboards with Ma Bell’s DTMF number arrangement. That’s right, Sundial has 24 function keys total, and the number pad matches Ma Bell’s all the way down to the asterisk/zero/octothorpe pattern on the bottom row. How do we know what the …read more
The most recent of the Zelda franchise, Breath of the Wild, is known for its many, many puzzles. One of the more frustrating ones involved bowling with a giant snowball at the top of a hillside. [Bertrand] did not like this, so he cheated the system hacked the Nintendo Switch so that he “genuinely earned” a strike every time he played. He achieved this by writing a script for a Teensy module that got him those sweet rupees.
The Teensy houses an Atmel 90USB1286 microcontroller. When paired with LUFA software, it can emulate numerous controllers including keyboards, joysticks, etc. …read more
Continue reading Teensy Script Plays Nintendo Switch, Strikes Out
What to do with your broken gaming consoles? Gut it and turn it into a different gaming console! Sudomod forum user [banjokazooie] has concocted his own RetroPie console from the husk of a WiiU controller — an ingenious demonstration of how one can recycle hardware to a perfectly suited purpose.
[banjokazooie] actually used an original shell for this build, but if you happen to have a broken controller around — or know someone who does — this is a great use for it. A Raspberry Pi 3 is the brains of this operation (not counting [banjokazooie]), and it features a …read more
