Open-Source, 3D Printed Trackpad

Touchpads, or trackpads, have been around since the 1980s. Today, you can often find them in laptops and notebook computers as pointing devices. With no moving parts, a trackpad are easy to integra…

HP WebOS TouchPad Gets With The USB-C Times

Despite HP shuttering their WebOS project some time ago, the operating system has kept a dedicated following. One device in particular, the HP TouchPad, was released just a month before webOS went …

Crabapplepad Folding Keyboard Is Actually Pretty Sweet

[Sergei Silnov] was quite attached to the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 keyboard, an updated version of their Natural keyboard that brought so many into the split fold. But once [Sergei] started…

Turning The Back Of Your Phone Into A Touchpad

Smartphones use big touchscreens on the front as a useful tactile interface. However, our hands naturally wrap around the back of the phone, too. This area is underutilized as an interface, but the…

Making Your Own Touchpad With PWM And Rust

The modern touchpads are incredible feats of engineering, with everything from complex signal processing for noise and tremendous economies of scale driving prices low. So [Kevin] decided to see if…

Draw Using Your Laptop Touchpad To Sign PDFs And More With FingerPaint

FingerPaint is a simple tool for Linux that allows drawing using the laptop's touchpad. It supports all X11 desktop environments and GNOME with Waylan