[HN Gopher] Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your lapto...
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Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut
Author : OuterVale
Score : 711 points
Date : 2024-07-15 15:47 UTC (4 days ago)
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| nullindividual wrote:
| Thanks for the Monday morning laugh. They should have used this
| method of communication in WWII instead of those signal lights!
| /s
|
| And someone posted the other day that there was no way humans
| would be creating new works anymore because of AI...
| LorenDB wrote:
| RIP that person's laptop hinge. With use, hinges loosen, and I
| can't imagine that sort of stress would slow the process.
| hagbard_c wrote:
| Not to mention the display cable, fortunately you can order new
| hinges and display cables by slamming the thing shut a few
| thousand times in the right cadence. This is not just a
| solution in search of a problem but also a solution to the
| problems it causes.
| jerf wrote:
| I like to imagine that the animated gif featured at the top is
| in fact in real time, not accelerated, and they have long
| passed the point where this is an issue.
|
| Perhaps that was even the inspiration.
| amlib wrote:
| I think this is just to show off how strong a thinkpad x/t
| hinge is :)
| Sharlin wrote:
| This distinctly reminds me of spacebar heating workflow [1].
|
| [1] https://xkcd.com/1172/
| alxndr_2000 wrote:
| I wonder if anyone has ever implemented spacebar heating?
| owenpalmer wrote:
| Haha that's great
| josefritzishere wrote:
| This is a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
| jvanderbot wrote:
| Beautiful wording.
|
| So, I had to see where it was from, if anywhere else
| (Amazon.com): A Heartbreaking Work of
| Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who,
| in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer
| and inherits his eight-year-old brother. This exhilarating
| debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly
| inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that
| holds a family together.
| oaktowner wrote:
| A wonderful, wonderful read. An audacious title, but the book
| absolutely makes good on it.
| nocoiner wrote:
| You are a liberal arts major at an American university in the
| first half of the first decade of this century. At every
| house party you attend, you see a copy of this book on every
| coffee table. You are aware that it is critically acclaimed
| and you participate in numerous conversations regarding its
| merits (or lack thereof). You have never read the book. You
| regret nothing.
| xg15 wrote:
| My suspicion is, the same would work with Godel, Escher,
| Bach in Silicon Valley circles.
|
| "It's such a profound book with incredibly deep, life-
| changing insights about the hidden connections and
| symmetries of the universe. I really should read it some
| time."
| xg15 wrote:
| well it will break something alright
| satisfice wrote:
| I have no better comment and I must scream.
| dguest wrote:
| How was this posted both 2 hours ago and also on the 15th?
|
| I got really confused when someone said something about "monday
| morning" but all the timestamps read 15th.
| AnimalMuppet wrote:
| I think that happens when it comes in via the second-chance
| pool.
| lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
|
| There's a "second-chance" pool for posts which didn't get a lot
| of discussion but the moderators feel deserve more. When it's
| added to the front page again, the timestamps are updated to
| make it seem like a fresh post, presumably because people will
| be more likely to comment.
| lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
| Gotta love the marketing!
|
| > Use a battle-tested encoding trusted by pilots, submariners,
| and amateur radio nerds
|
| Technically accurate, yet entirely missing the point.
| shreddit wrote:
| It even works offline, just slam harder for "over the air"
| transmission. Has a shorter range though...
| Bluestein wrote:
| (Talk about "air gapped", eh?
| aspyct wrote:
| Shorter range and shorter lifespan too :D
| th0ma5 wrote:
| There is a video of a guy shouting into a can which was
| changing the pressure of a piezo ... I think they picked it up
| in the shack but didn't mess with it much more. Completely
| passive I think.
| shagie wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
| xg15 wrote:
| Recommended by 9 out of 10 independent laptop repair shops!
| Bluestein wrote:
| All we need now is the "slam head on keyboard" version :)
| ToucanLoucan wrote:
| Should be pretty straight forward to modify the code, just look
| for key presses of R, T, Y, U, D, F, G, H, J, V, B, and N.
| madcaptenor wrote:
| You're assuming I have good aim.
| Bluestein wrote:
| And/or an easily targetable forehead :)
| thih9 wrote:
| I think this is doable; and practice makes perfect.
|
| I can enter passcode on my apple watch with my nose. It's
| the smaller apple watch model. Nose is quite big.
| ToucanLoucan wrote:
| I do this to my watch and phone, most often when cuddling
| the wife because one of my arms will doubtlessly be
| unavailable.
| Bluestein wrote:
| The _nose_ as a _pointing device_ ...
|
| Gotta go find me a scientific study _on that_ :)
| 1123581321 wrote:
| Nipples work too. They also register as valid Touch ID
| prints.
| perilunar wrote:
| The original touch interface.
| Bluestein wrote:
| Swear. Gonna retire to the English countryside one day
| and just dump everything and open a pub:
|
| "The Nipple & Clit"
| thih9 wrote:
| Still counts as FaceID.
| Dwedit wrote:
| This is how you destroy your hinge.
| KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 wrote:
| does indeed seem rather unhinged
| autoexec wrote:
| Yeah. build quality these days makes this really risky.
| skeaker wrote:
| Yes, it's a shame that laptop manufacturers fail to account for
| the critical need of sending Morse code.
| yipbub wrote:
| Not the Thinkpad in the video though
| in-tension wrote:
| Fantastic.
|
| Did anyone else have nostalgia for the Thinkpad track point?
| khedoros1 wrote:
| Better, I have one right in front of me!
| in-tension wrote:
| Do they still make them or do you have an old one?
| mnsc wrote:
| You have to zoom in a bit, but the knob is there for the
| ride.
|
| https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/lenovo-
| thinkpad-p1-gen-...
| ofalkaed wrote:
| Did you use the trackpoint for navigating an onscreen keyboard
| or something? Trackpoint gestures for the the alphabet?
| floam wrote:
| The clit?
| utensil4778 wrote:
| The Thinkpad TrackPoint mouse has over 20,000 nerve endings
| PennRobotics wrote:
| No.
|
| I recently had a ThinkPad Z13 for over a year. I tried
| earnestly using the TrackPoint on multiple occasions. It had
| inconsistent pressure pickup, bad haptics, and poor button
| integration.
|
| I think I had a different opinion 25+ years ago, but that was
| an era where the laptop might ONLY have a TrackPoint, and its
| design was intentional---not an afterthought like the current
| gen.
|
| In fact, one of the main selling points (reducing wrist strain)
| doesn't apply to the Z13, because the cold, hard, right-angled
| aluminum edge of the case digs into your wrists the longer you
| keep them in the same position.
| efitz wrote:
| Cryptonomicon by Neil Stephenson had a subplot where a main
| character used morse code on his keyboard, or some other layered
| encoding on top of the keyboard, to write software and
| communicate surreptitiously even while his screen was being
| recorded.
| linsomniac wrote:
| Jinx
| wsintra2022 wrote:
| Came across that book just recently in one of those free book
| libraries, tell me, was it a good read?
| cynusx wrote:
| Cryptonomicon is one of the best reads on the planet, it's
| famous.
| stavros wrote:
| Is it now, though? I read it and didn't manage to get into
| it much, and don't really remember anything from it.
|
| I think it's one of those works of art that were so
| revolutionary that they started a whole genre, but now they
| seem badly done and cliched just because everyone has
| copied them and iterated on them.
| fellerts wrote:
| I found it witty and somewhat educational, but man is it
| _long_. I read it on the kindle and when I thought that I
| must be getting close to the end, I had only read 30% of
| it. It takes some determination to get through.
| stavros wrote:
| Yeah, it's been a while since I read it, but I did find
| it to be a slog.
| JJMcJ wrote:
| After the novel itself ends, there's quite a bit of
| additoinal material.
| flir wrote:
| Some of the tech's a bit long-in-the-tooth (the whole
| data haven concept), but the genre was already well-
| established when the book turned up (Gravity's Rainbow
| (1973) in particular and postmodern literature in
| general). I, personally, enjoy it.
| albrewer wrote:
| I got about halfway through and forgot I was in the middle
| of reading it. The story never really grabbed me. I say
| this as someone who usually rips through a book a week.
| SamBam wrote:
| If you're a computer nerd, yes, definitely.
|
| There are plenty of people I wouldn't recommend it to,
| though.
| themadturk wrote:
| It is a story of technology and history. It grew out of the
| author's interest in the way we communicate, and also out of
| his interest in WWII legends. It's huge, and hugely readable.
| It's a very good read if the intersection of those things
| interest you.
| groby_b wrote:
| Yes, it's an amazing book. But skip the last 20 pages,
| they're deeply unsatisfying writing.
| roughly wrote:
| The Neal Stephenson experience.
|
| That, and the 20-page grad-level dissertation on some
| esoteric subject randomly in the middle of the book.
|
| The man's truly one of the best out there, and I'm
| convinced a more aggressive editor would ruin him, but it
| wouldn't be a Stephenson without some real head scratching
| authorial decisions.
| imp0cat wrote:
| So true about the endings! And he's actually aware of it.
| Well, I'm reasonably happy with all of my endings, but I
| know that some people feel differently. But as you've
| noticed, they're different, it's not always the same
| thing. All I can say is different books end in different
| ways, and different people have different tastes in what
| they want to see. I'm well aware that there are certain
| people frustrated with the endings of some of my books.
| But I also think that it's one of these things where
| people's preconceived ideas sometimes drive the way they
| perceive things. ... So I think that my
| experience is that once you've written a book with a
| controversial ending and that meme gets going of
| Stephenson can't write endings, then that gets slapped on
| to everything you do, no matter how elaborate the ending
| is.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnq-2BJwatE&t=654s
| nocoiner wrote:
| It's not a meme, the man really can't write an ending to
| save his life. But generally the pages other than the
| last ~25 make it totally worth it (other than that post-
| death MMORPG book, that one was terrible and just a slog
| the whole way through).
| roughly wrote:
| > other than that post-death MMORPG book, that one was
| terrible and just a slog the whole way through
|
| Literally everything about that book except the main plot
| was fantastic. It read terrifyingly prophetic once he
| could peel himself away from whatever greek fable
| bullshit he was on about on the main thread.
| digging wrote:
| Have you read Termination Shock, and if so, how do you
| feel it stacks up? It was, regrettably, my first (and
| still only) Stephenson book, and I thought it was really
| quite bad in all the ways that matter to me. (The action
| was good, but I don't read sci-fi for the action.) But I
| see _so_ much love for him in hacker circles online that
| I wave on whether or not I should give his more famous
| works some attention.
| roughly wrote:
| Termination shock wasn't great, no - Kim Stanley
| Robinson's Ministry for the Future was a much better work
| in that vein. I think Cryptonomicon is very good, I
| really liked Seveneves, Anathem is fantastic, and I liked
| REAMDE as well, as far as his latter day works go. Snow
| Crash and The Diamond Age are what made him famous and
| are both Very good, if a bit dated now.
| divbzero wrote:
| I still can't quite place his digression on monads in
| _The Baroque Cycle_.
| jgrahamc wrote:
| _That, and the 20-page grad-level dissertation on some
| esoteric subject randomly in the middle of the book._
|
| This made me smile because while I enjoyed Seveneves
| there was an entire interlude discussing swarms of
| spacecraft cooperating to avoid debris.
| tessellated wrote:
| Don't forget the cereals!
| darby_nine wrote:
| Pynchon always managed to integrate this tendency into
| the narrative much better. Stephenson is still worth it
| tho.
| paranoidrobot wrote:
| I've read it probably a dozen times or more. I'm actually
| mid-way through it again after not having read it for a year
| or two.
|
| I think it's still a great story. The technology is
| definitely dated.
|
| There is also some language that will offend or make some
| people uncomfortable (Racial slurs epithets, among them).
| altairprime wrote:
| A lot of my guy friends have a crush on a lead character in
| it (not Elias or Elon, but a similar name?) and praise it
| extensively. I apparently read it one time and remember
| nothing about it, so YMMV but if you're into hacker guys,
| you'll apparently love it!
| tessellated wrote:
| Enoch Root?
| tessellated wrote:
| I have read and can recommend everything by the author
| between and not including 'The Big U' and 'REAMDE'.
|
| REAMDE disappointed me so much, that I haven't touched his
| later novels.
|
| 'Snow Crash' reads like a graphic novel, 'Anathem' is just
| unique and maybe in my fav top 10 (not considering 'A
| Canticle for Leibowitz' :), 'Cryptonomicon' + 'The Baroque
| Cycle' are slow but very rewarding.
|
| 'The Diamond Age', what can I say, do yourself a favour and
| start reading it now.
|
| Sure I forgot one or two, it's been a long time.
| Crespyl wrote:
| Specifically, IIRC, the character used the "Scroll Lock" LED to
| blink out some coordinates in Morse, to avoid the location
| being displayed on-screen and thus captured by Van Eck
| phreaking[0].
|
| [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
| divbzero wrote:
| ... and, for input, tapped out Morse code on the space bar
| while viewing man pages so it looked like the character was
| just paging through documentation.
| JJMcJ wrote:
| Sent Morse by one of the LEDs like Caps Lock.
|
| Nowadays 99% of laptops don't have those LEDs.
| linsomniac wrote:
| This reminds me of that section in the book Cryptonomicon, where
| our hero is programming on a laptop that he knows is being spied
| upon using Tempest and probably more, and is using clandestine
| input via morse code on the shift (?) key. I really enjoyed that
| book.
| AcerbicZero wrote:
| Welp, I know what I'm reading on my next flight :)
| WD-42 wrote:
| You won't regret it, classic book.
| anfractuosity wrote:
| I think it was something to do with one of the keyboard keys
| with an LED if I recall correctly, so possibly caps/numlock.
|
| Edit: seems I'm misremembering, just read -
| https://www.reddit.com/r/programmerchat/comments/3aknvw/pris...
| the LED was to output data, but they used another key to tap
| code
| JJMcJ wrote:
| Input in Morse by space bar, output by LEDs.
| mulmen wrote:
| > on the shift (?) key.
|
| Disabling Windows accessibility features is an indication of
| anti-social behavior.
| xp84 wrote:
| ? even on one's own computer? I don't follow
|
| It would follow from your statement that not disabling the
| screen lock is also anti-social.
| omoikane wrote:
| Windows has a "sticky keys" accessibility feature that is
| enabled by pressing "shift" many times. I believe it's
| intended for people who have a hard time holding multiple
| keys at the same time.
|
| It's something that would be easy to trigger accidentally
| if you are using the shift keys to play pinball or type
| morse code.
| grvbck wrote:
| Same on MacOS, press shift 5x to activate.
| pests wrote:
| Any gamer who maps shift to something discovers this very
| quickly
| taneq wrote:
| Was that not tongue-in-cheek?
|
| The sticky-keys popup used to be a fun way to get past the
| screen lock used at computer shops etc. since it took focus
| off the screen lock window, which then let you use other
| hot keys. :D
| samatman wrote:
| Laptops are not generally social objects. The notion makes me
| a bit nauseous actually.
| eru wrote:
| Not more nauseous than any other shared keyboard, I assume?
| lelandbatey wrote:
| That book directly inspired my "blink my caps lock light when
| someone visits a web page" hack from nearly 8 years ago:
| http://lelandbatey.com/posts/2016/12/Making-lights-blink-for...
| rrjjww wrote:
| At risk of derailing the conversation, I finished Cryptonomicon
| earlier this year and really enjoyed it. Any recommendations
| for similar books?
| brk wrote:
| Snowcrash? REAMDE was also good.
| themadturk wrote:
| So nice to find someone else who enjoyed REAMDE.
| james_marks wrote:
| My favorite of his, and I've read most of them.
| jaggederest wrote:
| The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is
| the sequel to Snow Crash, and is excellent and in many ways
| more relevant and subversive now, given that more or less
| Snow Crash has passed into retrofuturism as all the things
| kind of happened, like Jules Verne.
| eru wrote:
| The Baroque Cycle by the same author.
|
| I didn't like Snowcrash nearly as much.
|
| His Diamond Age is pretty good, too.
| roughly wrote:
| If you can get past the absolute slog of a beginning, Anathem
| is amazing.
| xarope wrote:
| yes, give it a try and try to get past the first few
| chapters. The first time I read it, the world building
| almost put me to sleep. Somehow I decided to give it
| another try on a long flight, and this time I grok'd the
| world building, and thoroughly enjoyed it all the way
| through to the end.
| 0xEF wrote:
| Anthem is my favorite Stephenson book, by far. My copy is
| the only book I own with a broken binding because I've read
| it too many times. I don't think that one gets enough
| attention, especially from a world building and technical
| perspective.
| linsomniac wrote:
| I thought Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir had a similar
| "feel", though it's more future-looking rather than past
| looking.
|
| Daemon and Freedom(tm) by Daniel Suarez is another book
| (printed as two books, because reasons) that is ~1K pages but
| I've read 3 times (like Cryptonomicon).
|
| Others in this thread have recommended The Baroque Cycle, but
| I just couldn't get into it. Ditto with Anathem. Maybe I
| should give them another try. However, I do love Diamond Age
| and Snowcrash.
| sam_goody wrote:
| I really appreciate an old style HN "Hacker" post!
| fitsumbelay wrote:
| love this and author's previous posts + work
| anfractuosity wrote:
| Haha. Tangentially -
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_Me_to_Heaven -
|
| "developed by Carrot Pop which measures the vertical distance
| that a mobile phone is thrown. Players compete against each other
| by seeking to throw their phones higher than others, often at the
| risk of damaging their phones."
| rg2004 wrote:
| Why would apple ban this? Seems like a great way to increase
| sales!
| karolist wrote:
| applecare abuse
| beAbU wrote:
| Seems like the solution is right there. "Your claim was
| denied because we found and app installed on your device
| that promotes physical abuse."
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| Do you mean a browser with a HN comment section open?
| alexdbird wrote:
| The sensor was only needed to park spinning disks when the
| laptop was in free fall. Without the spinning disks they no
| longer fitted the sensor.
| OuterVale wrote:
| My first phone was a RugGear RG930. If you think Nokia's 3310
| was built like a brick, then this thing may as well have been a
| rubberised titanium brick.
|
| It was so solid I used to play 'catch the phone' with friends,
| and it ended up face down on concrete more times than I can
| count, but I don't think it ever sustained so much as a
| scratch.
|
| If the RG930 ran Android, I reckon I could go for the high
| score.
| prmoustache wrote:
| I had a rugged android phone from Blackview that was deemed
| to survive terrible stuff...I managed to drop it into the
| ocean.
|
| Bought another one for my significant other after changing
| the screen of her samsung smartphone 3 times. She has used it
| for more than a year, it slipped from her jacket once from my
| motorbike. Someone found it 1h later in the middle of a
| roundabout face down with tire marks on the case. He saw it
| only because I was calling it and it has some notification
| lights at the back. Not a single scratch on the screen! Her
| only complaints is the quality of the photos taken with the
| camera.
|
| I wish they were supported by alternative roms like lineageos
| or /e/os.
| lawlessone wrote:
| >I managed to drop it into the ocean.
|
| Will survive being subducted under a continental plate?
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| A colleague showed me their Caterpillar-branded phone, it was
| proper ruggedized like you see in construction radios and the
| like, big bumpers, plastic screen, he casually yote it onto
| the floor to demonstrate. Mainly so he can pass it to his
| kids if they're bored.
|
| The current generation Cat branded phones look pretty
| regular, but are probably still much more rugged than most
| phones.
| mbonnet wrote:
| When I lived in Sierra Leone circa 2012, a lot of expats had
| phones like this. Ruggedized, could handle anything - dust,
| falling into a silty river, anything. Many a game of catch
| were played with them.
| extraduder_ire wrote:
| Also: Smackbook - https://stevenbock.me/Smackbook-Yosemite/
| (more modern recreation or the original)
|
| A way to switch virtual desktops on macbooks with a hard drive
| by slapping them on the side.
| mintplant wrote:
| > NOTE: This script will not work with any Macbooks shipped
| with SSDs. This includes the Retina Macbook Pro and recent
| Macbook Air models.
|
| "This update broke my workflow! Just add an option to
| reenable HDD smacking."
|
| https://xkcd.com/1172
| userbinator wrote:
| IBM had this sensor on their laptops too, around 2 years
| before Apple added it to theirs:
| https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HDAPS#Other
| latexr wrote:
| Also iAlertU. It used the sudden motion sensor to make a loud
| noise like a car alarm. The fun part was that you could use
| the remote to turn it off and that kept up with the theme.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4XZpU1zzWs&pp=ygUHaWFsZXJ0d.
| ..
| epiccoleman wrote:
| I had some smartphone, I think a Motorola, with a plastic
| screen instead of glass. Never shattered on me, but took
| scratches very easily. I think it may have died when it was
| dropped in a toilet? IDK, been a while, I think it was before
| nearly universal IPS waterproofing on phones.
| lynx23 wrote:
| Postmodern decadence. Funny, yes. But more akin to slaves
| fighting in an arena. Yes, I know, machines have no feelings
| (yet), but it still seems excessive.
| TeMPOraL wrote:
| On the contrary, this is how humanity advances - one "hold my
| beer and watch this" moment at a time.
| dheera wrote:
| You could probably get better "framerate" by just hearing the
| slamming sounds from the microphone instead of querying acpid.
|
| Or using the webcam to look for darkness of the shutting.
| stainablesteel wrote:
| absolutely brilliant solution for if your keyboard breaks and you
| REALLY need to send an email
| thih9 wrote:
| Also great discoverability. When you need to send that email so
| badly that you start repeatedly slamming the laptop lid out if
| frustration, you get presented with this extra input method.
| xeyownt wrote:
| Definitely needed when you must order a new keyboard
| egberts1 wrote:
| How about the #headdesk'ing of Morse code on a touchpad?
| js8 wrote:
| I once bought one of those Lenovo something hybrids between
| touchpad and notebook, horrible design as it turned out. It had a
| docking type of connection with the keyboard, very sensitive to
| vibration of the desk. Since the touchpad piece had the CPU, and
| the keyboard piece had the external connectors, it was
| practically unusable. If you connected an external storage
| device, it would randomly disconnect (and possibly lose data) due
| to vibrations of the table. So yeah.. you could probably tap
| morse code on the table and have it detected on this device.
| mattigames wrote:
| It would be slighly more useful to have something that uses the
| microphone to detect when you physicially tap the laptop e.g.
| with your finger, it could be used to keep typing even with your
| laptop screen down, imagine a spy movie where the baddies close
| your laptop and put a gun against your head and you have to put
| your hands in the air, but you use your knee under the table to
| tap type "shred -vzn 0 /dev/xxx", poof, all data gone.
| tamimio wrote:
| Need one for the car brakes, so I can communicate road rage with
| it.
| kibwen wrote:
| I use the horn for this. For example, if someone cuts in front
| of me, I use Morse code to communicate the phrase "I am
| attempting to exercise empathy by putting myself in your shoes,
| and to be maximally charitable I am assuming that you're
| probably in a hurry, quite likely for a very good reason, such
| as perhaps your wife is going into labor, or you're running
| late for a big meeting, or your father in on his deathbed and
| you need to say goodbye to him for the last time, so I don't
| begrudge you for cutting me off, quite the contrary in fact, I
| wish you the best on your journey through life."
|
| They then often use their horn to communicate something back to
| me, but sadly I'm not yet good enough at decoding Morse code to
| understand what they're trying to say.
| smcnally wrote:
| Meta data like tone, timbre, amplitude also communicate
| intent and meaning beyond 'dah's and 'dit's.
| Cthulhu_ wrote:
| I often wish for a way to communicate to other drivers via
| something that's a bit more clear than horn or blinking
| lights. Like one of those LED text things to say "oi mate
| your lights are off" or something like that.
| Sohcahtoa82 wrote:
| I just want one that says "STOP CAMPING THE PASSING LANE"
| wingmanjd wrote:
| Wasn't there a Cold War era communication method accomplished
| via a car with squeaky brakes? I think it was nicknamed "the
| duck"?
| bouncycastle wrote:
| version 2.0 will ship with the most requested feature: ability to
| also use the space bar
| mikeInAlaska wrote:
| Surely you can very discretely and ergonomically use this... if
| you move your lid jussttt above the point where it decides it is
| closed and then tap.
| kmoser wrote:
| Yeah, "slam" seems a bit hyperbolic, if not click-baity.
| langsoul-com wrote:
| Click the link and watch the video in the github read me.
|
| It IS slamming the lid...
| mal10c wrote:
| YES! This project, this is what the internet is for!
| aussiegeek wrote:
| For when you want to spend more on a key than a Begali
| iLemming wrote:
| Emacs has a built-in command 'morse-region'. I wonder if I can do
| the reverse - make the laptop flap for a given string? I guess
| you just need to find a small but powerful enough servo.
| pyinstallwoes wrote:
| This is why the universe loves humans.
| TZubiri wrote:
| Peak hacker news
| Scoundreller wrote:
| On this topic, my Dell laptop detects that it's closed by having
| 1 (!) magnet in the screen, and a sensor on the case. So when I
| put my magsafe phone to the right of the touchpad, it thinks I've
| closed it and logs me out.
|
| My MacBook has 2 magnets in the screen to avoid this issue.
| nocoiner wrote:
| Seems like they should have put the magnet in the case and the
| sensor in the screen.
| langsoul-com wrote:
| Wild, laptop would be broken so fast!
|
| Kinda reminds me of the signal language typing, used computer
| vision for that.
|
| A head hanging Morse code version would be interesting as well.
| Or perhaps a mobile phone accelerometer Morse code would be fun
| too.
| surfingdino wrote:
| Gloriously pointless, yet frightfully well carried out.
| znpy wrote:
| Reminds me of knock-age, a perl script to send commands by
| "nudging" your thinkpad (hitting it not too strong).
|
| The original link was at
| http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/l-knock...
| but it's gone and archive.org doesn't seem to have a copy anymore
| :(
|
| There's a fork at https://github.com/esantoro/knockage it seems
| 0xFEE1DEAD wrote:
| Just what I've been looking for
| puttycat wrote:
| Information finds a way [1]
|
| [1] Around 28:00 here:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZX-1QybZEQ
| sva_ wrote:
| The ultimate hinge test
| lordwiz wrote:
| Pretty cool, but i cant imagine the work involved in testing the
| code, the laptop hinge must have gone through a lot
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