I dropped my keyboard and it turned on RGB lights and tried to install copilot
maybe my next Bad Keyboard should be a cushioned plushy with a motion sensor in it. you drop it from different heights to get different letters
@foone put it in a blahaj
@foone terminal velocity keyboard
@foone How hard would a living plant be? Each leaf a different letter...
@foone and an accelerometer, so you have to actively throw it towards the ground to get capital leters
@domi @foone character code = m/s*10
@ora @foone and if you strap the keyboard to a plane it overflows! :D
@foone
It took me at least 5 minutes to realize that Bad Keyboard is not a Luftkurort somewhere in germany... 🤣
@foone 3-axis accelerometer and a selectric ball. Just drop it with the desired letter facedown.
@foone as an additional refinement do uppercase by tossing against the ceiling and lowercase by dropping.
@foone Toss it down a flight of stairs and it writes a shakespearean sonnet
@foone Oh are we having a worst-HID-design contest now?
@phoenixgee I have been for years, yeah!
this is a lovely idea, i imagine a setup with a measuring tape that has the height of each letter written on it
@magdalunaa @ducksel I was working on that alone as a keyboard, using a modified digital measuring tape.
but I damaged it and gave up
@foone spin to get modifiers like ctrl and shift? Squeeze for escape?
@foone I think a MIDI breath controller might make a good keyboard. 0-127 just from modulating airflow.
@tekhedd @foone breathalyzer keyboard
@aburka @foone Breathalyzer's going to be hard to top for "slow".
@tekhedd @foone was about to suggest MIDI, but one of those guitar pickup controllers. Or even a Guitar Hero one :)
@WillTootMaybe @foone i humbly suggest a midi saxophone.

@foone Sounds like a hacky sack keyboard. Would be funnier if it wasn’t wireless. And USB-B.

“Sorry boss, I’ve got to hacky sack into Slack to give Mack directions on the knack to a good fallback, otherwise the client’s clawback may sidetrack our kickback and drop our Cadillac for some off-the-rack Jack.”

@foone Then you can build another one using a BME280 - throw it in the air - altitude difference gives different letters.
@foone revealed its true colors, eh?

@foone

Nah, copilot tries to install if you ever leave your computer alone for more than ten seconds.  

Microsoft is desperate for growth.

@Christopher @foone set autoclicker for 8 seconds with randomisation 1.5 sec if you wanna raid fridge 🤔
@Christopher @foone
Hear me out.
One button. You hold it down while Windows installs Copilot. If you release it after it installs Copilot 65 times you get 'A', if you hold it for 66 installs, 'B', etc. Hold it for 8 installs to backspace, etc.
@foone Condolences for your loss.
@foone You breathe on an electronic device wrong these days and it tries to install copilot.
that's called revenge
@foone
I'm not happy with this dystopian future.

@foone if i dropped my keyboard it would drill through the earth

thanks model m

@gewt @foone keyboard of Mass destruction.

@foone

Revenge for your abuse