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Touchpads, or trackpads, have been around since the 1980s. Today, you can often find them in laptops and notebook computers as pointing devices. With no moving parts, a trackpad are …read more Continue reading Open-Source, 3D Printed Trackpad
I recently wrote about an isolated issue with keyboard shortcuts in Windows 11. Here’s a problem with touchpads and right-clicking. But this one isn’t isolated: It impacts everyone.
Touchpads–trackpads, clickpads, whatever you want to call them–are i… Continue reading We’re Just Not Clicking (Premium)
Elecrow has launched an interesting project on Kickstarter that has the look of a 14-inch laptop but isn’t. It essentially brings a notebook experience to connected phones, single-board computers and handheld gaming consoles.Continue ReadingCategory: L… Continue reading Laptop-like CrowView Note ready to work with Pi, phones and mini-PCs
Cats are notorious for interrupting workflow. Whether it’s in the kitchen, the garden, or the computer, any feline companion around has a way of getting into mischief in an oftentimes …read more Continue reading Tiny Trackpad Fits On Ergonomic Keyboard
Let’s face it, those touchpads on laptops are awful, and were never meant to be the primary mouse for all-day use. Not that external mice are much better on your shoulder and neck in the long term — especially if you’re reaching past a 10-key and back to use it. …read more
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There are a surprising wealth of parts inside of old laptops that can be easily scavenged, but often these proprietary tidbits of electronics will need a substantial amount of work to make them useful again. Obviously things such as hard drives and memory can easily be used again, but it’s …read more
Apple is releasing iPadOS 13.4 on March 24 with full support for trackpad, works with its existing mice and supports third-party mice connected over Bluetooth or USB.
The post Apple to Release iPadOS 13.4 Next Week With Full Mouse and Trackpad Support… Continue reading Apple to Release iPadOS 13.4 Next Week With Full Mouse and Trackpad Support
Bluetooth keyboards are great when you need to type on a tablet and don’t want much of the screen lost to virtual keys, but a built-in trackpad would be useful. Rather than bulk out the form factor, Belarus-based Clevetura is launching a keyb… Continue reading Click&Touch keyboard puts the trackpad in the keys
Old laptops are easy to find and many have a trackpad with a PS/2 interface hardwired into the guts of the laptop. [Build It] wanted one of those trackpads for use in the DIY Raspberry Pi laptop he’s working on. But the Raspberry Pi has no PS/2 input, and he read that a PS/2 to USB adapter wouldn’t be reliable enough. His solution? Wire the trackpad to an Arduino and have the Arduino convert the trackpad’s PS/2 to USB.
After removing a few screws, he had the trackpad free of the laptop. Looking up the trackpad’s part number online he …read more
Continue reading Raspberry Pi Trackpad From Salvaged Trackpad Plus Arduino
Two researchers of Responsive Environments, MIT Media Lab, have put to together a device that is an amazing array of musical instruments squeezed into one flexible package. Made using seven layers of fabrics with different electrical properties, the result can be played using touch, proximity, pressure, stretch, or with combinations of them. Using a fabric-based keyboard, ribbon-controller, and trackpad, it can be played as a one-octave keyboard, a theremin, and in ways that have no words, such as stretching while pressing keys. It can also be folded up and stuffed into a case along with your laptop, and care has …read more
