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As the title says, [José Faria] added the ability to adjust his keyboard backlight based on ambient light levels. But that's just one of the things he did during his hacking extravaganza with this Razer BlackWidow Ultimate. When he first received the peripheral he didn't like the blue LEDs used as backlights. So he removed all of them and put in white ones. He doesn't talk too much about that … [Read more...]
Gutarist, hacker, and mustache enthusiast [David Neevel] brought together way too many pieces of hardware in order to use his electric guitar as a computer keyboard. So let's dig into the house of cards he built for the project. It starts off with the guitar which has been fitted with an additional pickup to interface with a Roland GR-33 synthesizer pedal. That outputs a MIDI signal, which many … [Read more...]
We mourn the loss of the physical keyboard with the advent of tablets. After all, we do a bit of typing getting all of these features posted throughout the week. And we kind of blame tablets for the decline of the netbook industry (we still use a Dell Vostro A90 when not at home). But we're trying to keep an open mind that we may not need a physical keyboard anymore. If someone can come up with an … [Read more...]
We just got an ergonomic keyboard for the first time and absolutely love it. But the look of this keyboard hack has us second guessing ourselves. [Will Pretend] pulled off an absolutely stunning wooden retrofit for his USB keyboard. Be warned, his project log includes 175 photos, and most of them have captions. He started off by taking apart the original USB keyboard to see what he was working … [Read more...]
The form factor of this keyboard just doesn't look right. What's missing? Oh, the numpad has been completely removed! We use our numpad almost exclusively (especially when coding) so it's a little hard to figure out why [Ludw] did this. His only mention of motive is that he wanted the mouse closer to the main part of the keyboard and that he didn't use the numpad. No matter what the reason, we … [Read more...]
This pair of musical keyboard hacks both use light to detect inputs. The pair of tips came in on the same day, which sparks talk of consipiracy theory here at Hackaday. Something in the weather must influence what types of projects people take on because we frequently see trends like this one. Video of both projects is embedded after the jump. On the left is a light-sensitive keyboard which … [Read more...]
[Heinrich Laue] was kind of a latecomer to the fake guitar playing video game phenomenon. He played Frets on Fire -- an open source clone of the game -- on PC and eventually bought a copy of Guitar Hero World Tour. But playing on the keyboard was a drag. Instead of buying a controller he built his own hacked Guitar Hero controller from a scrapped keyboard and a toy guitar. The plastic toy he … [Read more...]
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