Touchpad + Arduino
posted Jul 23rd 2009 7:04am by Caleb Kraftfiled under: arduino hacks, peripherals hacks
[Jani] directed us to his tutorial on making a laptop touchpad work with an Arduino. After seeing the recent post on touch pad and VFD hacking, he couldn’t resist finding one of these to play with. He shows us how to connect it all up and offers two methods of using the data from it. The first method is to determine the direction of finger travel and the second, shown above, is to use it more like the volume control on an iPod. Source code for both is available on his site.
This is just awesome! Finally a use for all those old broken laptops I’ve been keeping.
Now if someone can come up with a hack that will give me more then 24 hours in a day, I’ll be set.