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Oh sure, Amazon can deliver any number of Logitech peripherals to your door in 48 hours, but where’s the fun in that? With open source hardware (OSHW) input devices like …read more Continue reading This OSHW Trackball is Ready to be Customized
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
Back in 2016 we told you about a wearable device known as the Tap Strap, which lets users control Bluetooth-linked devices via finger-taps. Its inventors have now announced its sleeker and more capable successor, called the TapXR.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading TapXR puts finger-tap control of devices in bracelet form
We’ve seen plenty of custom keyboards here on Hackaday. Seriously, like more than we can count. But custom mice? Those are far more elusive. Though we wouldn’t be surprised to …read more Continue reading DIY Gaming Mouse Beats the Competition, Costs Less
Just as the Jedi youngling would have to build their light saber, so is it a rite of passage for a true geek to build their own computer interfaces. And …read more Continue reading Show Us Your Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals!
With its copious number of GPIO pins, native USB, and MicroPython support, the Raspberry Pi Pico is arguably the ideal microcontroller for developing your own platform agnostic USB Human Input …read more Continue reading Raspberry Pi Pico Makes For Expeditious Input Device
Pen input has never really taken off in the computing mainstream, though it’s had somewhat of a renaissance in the last decade or so. Various smartphones and tablets are shipping …read more Continue reading Flashpen Is A High Fidelity Pen Input Device
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
Continue reading Arduino Gets Old PC Booted and Back Into Action
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
Continue reading Breathing New Life into Old School ThinkPad Keyboards
You’ve (probably) got four limbs, so why are you only using half of them when you’re working on the computer? Just because your toes don’t have the dexterity to type (again, probably) doesn’t mean your feet should get to just sit there doing nothing all day. In a recent project, …read more
Continue reading Stomp Switches Let You Skip Tracks Hands-Free