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· 6d ago

Putting a MiSTer Marquee on a Better Display https://hackaday.com/2026/10/29/putting-a-mister-marquee-on-a-better-display/ #Games #PeripheralsHacks #Circulardisplay #Gc9a01 #Marquee #MiSTER #Rounddisplay

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Putting A MiSTer Marquee On A Better Display

Some MiSTer users put a small secondary “marquee” display on the FPGA board that can show information about the system such as the currently loaded core and what game it happens to be r…

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· 3mo ago

A Compact Game Controller For Your Phone https://hackaday.com/2026/08/01/a-compact-game-controller-for-your-phone/ #Games #PeripheralsHacks #Gamecontroller #Rp2040 #Rp2350 #Usbhid

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A Compact Game Controller For Your Phone

[Gil Yankovitch] noted that playing games on a touchscreen phone gave up a certain something in terms of the tactile feedback one gets from real buttons. To that end, he was inspired to build a con…

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· 3mo ago

A Capable KVM Built With The ESP32 https://hackaday.com/2026/07/30/a-capable-kvm-built-with-the-esp32/ #Computerhacks #PeripheralsHacks #Csi #Hdmi #Kvm

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A Capable KVM Built With The ESP32

[Evgenij Spitsyn] spotted a KVM build on these very pages some time ago. That inspired their own build, leveraging the versatility of the ESP32-P4 microcontroller. The concept is straightforward. N…

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· 3mo ago

Sharkfin Bites Attack Shark https://hackaday.com/2026/07/28/sharkfin-bites-attack-shark/ #Classichacks #PeripheralsHacks #Configuration #Keyboard #Reverseengineering

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Sharkfin Bites Attack Shark

The Attack Shark is a modern keyboard with fancy magnetic keyswitches, macros, configurable blinky LEDs, and more. The problem is that the configuration software only works on Windows, so [JR Lante…

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· 3mo ago

Regain Some Trust in Unknown USB Drives https://hackaday.com/2026/07/27/regain-some-trust-in-unknown-usb-drives/ #PeripheralsHacks #Corrupt #Drive #LBA #Microcontroller #Partition #Pipico #Raspberrypi #Sectors #Security #Thumbdrive #Usb

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Regain Some Trust In Unknown USB Drives

For how useful USB thumb drives are for quickly toting around and copying files from one computer to another, they can be a bit of a security headache. Programs can be loaded on them with all kinds…

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· 3mo ago

Hands-Free Mouse Uses Eyes And Muscles Instead https://hackaday.com/2026/07/24/hands-free-mouse-uses-eyes-and-muscles-instead/ #PeripheralsHacks #Accessibility #Accessibilitytools #Headtracking #Mouse

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Hands-Free Mouse Uses Eyes And Muscles Instead

The standard computer mouse is a perfectly useful peripheral if your hands work. If you’ve got some trouble in that area, you might appreciate an alternative input solution. To that end, [Var…

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· 4mo ago

Building A Wireless Fingerprint Authorization Device https://hackaday.com/2026/07/03/building-a-wireless-fingerprint-authorization-device/ #PeripheralsHacks #Auth #Authorization #Bluetooth #Fingerprint #Fingerprintreader #Linux #Mac #Pam

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Building A Wireless Fingerprint Authorization Device

Once upon a time, there was a bit of a fad for fingerprint authentication in laptops and desktop computers. It has long since faded, but [superdog] wanted just such a device for Linux and Mac machi…

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· 4mo ago

Watch a Steam Controller Skitter Itself To Its Charge Puck https://hackaday.com/2026/07/01/watch-a-steam-controller-skitter-itself-to-its-charge-puck/ #Games #PeripheralsHacks #Computervision #Hapticfeedback #Rubegoldberg #SteamController #WebHID

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Watch A Steam Controller Skitter Itself To Its Charge Puck

Hacks don’t have to be practical but it helps if they are educational or clever or amusing, as [Ray Foss] demonstrates with his auto-docking Steam Controller. It’s an open-source web ap…

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