Finger-worn, camera-toting mouse ring turns desktops into touchpads

Tired of running out of mousing room on your meagre li’l mousepad? If so, you might like the Padrone Primera mouse. It’s worn like a ring, and is claimed to turn the entire top of your desk into a giant touchpad.Continue ReadingCategory: Wearables, Con… Continue reading Finger-worn, camera-toting mouse ring turns desktops into touchpads

CharaChorder aims to radically boost typing speed on existing keyboards

Last year we told you about the CharaChorder Lite, a special keyboard that lets users type faster by using groupings of keys to represent entire words. Well, any keyboard can now do that, if it’s equipped with the CharaChorder X.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading CharaChorder aims to radically boost typing speed on existing keyboards

Arduino Gets Old PC Booted and Back Into Action

How many people still have a PS/2 keyboard kicking around in 2020? Admittedly asking such a question of the Hackaday audience is probably cheating (there’s a decent chance one of you will type a comment on one just to prove a point), but even the most pedantic reader has to …read more

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Breathing New Life into Old School ThinkPad Keyboards

The ThinkPad is generally considered the unofficial laptop of hackerdom, so it’s no surprise that we see plenty of projects focused on repairing and modifying these reliable workhorses. But while we usually see folks working on relatively modern incarnations of this iconic line of computers, this project by [Frank Adams] …read more

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