@Zero Cool well now adays it seems to be basically a war on who can get the dumbest idea or product. getting dumb ideas or product is actually a greatly used modern marketing strategy. look for example to modern mobile game design(game design for games meant to be played on a mobile smartphone) it is literally a design rule to make or at least attempt to make your game dumb or stupid. the golden sweetspot is seen there where it is terrible but just good enough to prevent people from directly stopping it. the same tricks are used in quite a lot of consumer product design. and it is mainly either to seem to stand out at first without adding something new, or by adding things you will not really use for example adding 5 0.3mp cameras to the back of the phone while there already are 2 much better and 1 decent camera there, also since in general the software doesn't actually use those 5 extra camera's for things other than using them as a alternative for a gyroscope(which used to be quite normal in smartphones and is less processor and power influencing). but on of the main reasons especially in game design is to prevent the user from thinking. if they have to think many people now days deal attacked and there might also be a chance for someone capable of thinking to discover how bad a game is.
I think this exists on some keyboard where the keycaps are actually touch sensitive EDIT: found it, it's the blackberry key 2: ua-cam.com/video/5-a2XAtorVE/v-deo.html
It has been so long since I used a trackpad so I don't even remember the feeling. I only use track points for the cursor and a drawing tablet for drawing and photo editing.
@@Electroshockist Just buy one. They have become very cheap recently. I bought the smallest model from XP pen. Excellent value for the price 8000 pressure levels, very responsive and no battery needed. The price was around $35 if I remember correctly.
I have to say, this is the most compelling use case for having a keyboard with such little travel to them, I'd have put that thing in storage by now. ;)
That's a quite fantastic project. I mean, I will never use it as a mouse, but that idea will surely help many people(like me) expand their capabilities.
I've been working on a project to hijack an actual mouse with Arduino/pi camera to do this with smoother movements. Stay tuned....Also, checkout my kickstarter video!
You know, this would be great for those keyboards that are projected onto a surface with light. You'd have a functional mouse in a lightweight transportable system. You also wouldn't have the problem of the bumpy keys. :)
Man. I had to subscribe This guy is the first youtuber ever who i have subscribe on the first video. Thankx to youtube to suggest me his video made my day.
This would be so incredible to have as an alternative to the numb red thingy that you see on ThinkPad laptops, but instead of that, you have the entire keyboard be used as a touchscreen-like trackpad
you know, this would make a cool product. a large touchpad with some light-up parts that glow when toggled to show a keyboard, but stay dim when toggled off to become a regulat track pad
The keyboard and the software should be sold together as one as a basic setup. Then there should be a premium version with gloves, such that the bleeding will be stopped and soaked while using the keyboard. Way better than my old notebooks trackpad!
While you were outlining the keys I was just assuming you'd map keypresses to mouse clicks on location and use an overlay to communicate where your keyboard is 'located'. Maybe use the arrow keys to shift it around.
Great idea and video! The problem is that the layout (position of keys) of each keyboard is slightly different, so the application created based on one keyboard may work in unexpected ways on other keyboards.
Under X11 there has always been a way to emulate a mouse. Just press Shift+NumLock to toggle the function. This turns the number pad into a cursor-block for the mouse pointer.
When I did this, I gave up because of the pain of pressing buttons. (on netbook keyboard at that!) So instead I mapped the keys to percentages of the screen, and used the numpad for actual precise movement. Likewise, function keys to switch modes. In fact, capslock + function keys. No program ever going to use those combinations! Works great since widescreen maps better to horizontal keyboard layouts. Not going to work well for portrait mode though lol I suffered using that for a week until my new mouse arrived. Suffering. But that suffering made it better and still something I use today for certain work. Although it is just crappy Autohotkey script since to hell with screwing around with the low-level Win API stuff. It was poorly documented then and they've still not changed that much!
THIS ! This should come pre-installed on every raspberry pi so you can still use it if you don't have a mouse You should have a super secret shortcut that noone would press accidentally but that you can figure out upon a quick Google search Something like LCtrl+RCtrl+Lshift+RShift+Alt+K
Imagine there would be an infrared sensor in every key... this would make it actually usefull. Would be a good idea for a laptop with without heigh keys (Surface or MacBook).
I really think I will implement something like this to quickly move my mouse to a spot on the screen, with something like Esc+key to move it to any point. Might help make some window managers easier to use without the trackpad.
This is basically the Mokibo Keyboard (it’s on Kickstarter). Except with the Mokibo you don’t have to press the keys, and the key caps all touch so it’s almost a continuous surface.
There are startup companies that launch with much dumber ideas and get funding so I would not yet give up on it :)
@Gabriel Freitas Mate, I have my Waterseer on order hah (Jokes).
Billon dollar idea
@Gabriel Freitas thunderf00t is a joke nowadays
@@vwertix1662 in which way?
@Zero Cool well now adays it seems to be basically a war on who can get the dumbest idea or product. getting dumb ideas or product is actually a greatly used modern marketing strategy. look for example to modern mobile game design(game design for games meant to be played on a mobile smartphone) it is literally a design rule to make or at least attempt to make your game dumb or stupid. the golden sweetspot is seen there where it is terrible but just good enough to prevent people from directly stopping it. the same tricks are used in quite a lot of consumer product design. and it is mainly either to seem to stand out at first without adding something new, or by adding things you will not really use for example adding 5 0.3mp cameras to the back of the phone while there already are 2 much better and 1 decent camera there, also since in general the software doesn't actually use those 5 extra camera's for things other than using them as a alternative for a gyroscope(which used to be quite normal in smartphones and is less processor and power influencing). but on of the main reasons especially in game design is to prevent the user from thinking. if they have to think many people now days deal attacked and there might also be a chance for someone capable of thinking to discover how bad a game is.
*Worst Idea* = _Quality Content_
This isn't the worst idea. I would have used all the keys...
Tge Worst idea is non quality content
this can be pretty useful if your desktop mouse isn't working anymore and you got to do something that's important real quiqly.
your justin y now
You know it's *Code Parade*
Can someone do this on a mechanical keyboard and show their finger
i did on a mechanical keyboard. ITS PAINFUL
I don't worry about my finger, I worry about my keyboard
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feels nice
I mean besides the fact that it's really loud, it's not accurate at all, and it makes your finger go numb, it works pretty well.
I can imagine now some company unironically implementing this just to put a bigger keyboard in a laptop... or making a smaller laptop.
Isn't that what the little red thing that you tilt is for?
@@drone_better7757 you mean the keyboard nipple?
@@rabidspanial737 you mean the IBM TrackPoint™?
Lookup the TOSHIBA LIBRETTO W100, they already did it (basically the bottom is also a touchscreen and can also be used as a touchpad or a keyboard)
@@rabidspanial737 mmm Keyboard Milk
What i really want to see is GBoard style swiping typing using the same method
I'll be surprised if you don't have a scholarship to Harvard.
Swype did that as an April fools joke one year.
Not for real though unfortunately
I think this exists on some keyboard where the keycaps are actually touch sensitive
EDIT: found it, it's the blackberry key 2: ua-cam.com/video/5-a2XAtorVE/v-deo.html
@@LordZarano yea it exists, my windows 10 phone has swipe type, it gets it wrong about 40% of the time though.
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Fun fact: the English language actually already has a word for what you created.
Sin. The word is sin.
This comment deserves more likes
German probably has an actual word for this too
@@newtclovers Tastaturtastfeld
* RELEASING OUR NEW KEYBOARD MODEL WITH A BUILT IN SIN *
Zero Cool haha okay sinner.
This reminds me of how someone made fruit ninja on a ti 84
Yeah exactly what it reminded me of
Dat Meme what? i really want to play that :)
Play csgo with this and a mouse movement for wasd,clicking the middle mouse button for jump
what is this thing you call "mouse"?
Mouse up: walk forward
Down: backwards
Left right:walk left right
Left click: jump
Right click: crouch
Wheel scroll: run
Have fun with that.
@@fransoto8343 Do you have to keep continually moving the mouse forward to walk?
@@incognitoburrito6020 Y E S
@@fransoto8343 Running in CS:Go?
Of course...
Honestly, not that much worse than a normal trackpad.
Not that that was a high bar in the first place.
It sucks on a mechanical keyboard.
It has been so long since I used a trackpad so I don't even remember the feeling. I only use track points for the cursor and a drawing tablet for drawing and photo editing.
@@SkepticalCaveman I wish I had a drawing tablet. I feel like I'm drastically increasing my rate of getting carpel tunnel every time I use a trackpad.
@@Electroshockist Just buy one. They have become very cheap recently. I bought the smallest model from XP pen. Excellent value for the price 8000 pressure levels, very responsive and no battery needed. The price was around $35 if I remember correctly.
What’s impressive is the multitouch support, it knowing that there are two fingers and it’s not one finger moving back and forth is really impressive
If you make that drawing into a t-shirt, I’d buy it.
SIMP
Aight imma reconstruct this and sell it on red bubble,
This would be an interesting way to implement swype keyboard on desktop
This comment stands out from the other ones because it's actually a good idea.
absolutely awesome!!!!!! was expecting clickbait but was surprised to see something very cool! great work.
Computer: somethings wrong, i can feel it.
Next time turn track pad into a keyboard.
Yes
So basically Mactini
osk.exe
You still draw better with a keyboard than me with a pencil
I can imagine Kickstarter making this. Introducing, the Track-Key.
"make your keypad a REAL key-pad!"
Me, using a nice quality mouse: "I wish this hurt"
I have to say, this is the most compelling use case for having a keyboard with such little travel to them, I'd have put that thing in storage by now. ;)
That's a quite fantastic project. I mean, I will never use it as a mouse, but that idea will surely help many people(like me) expand their capabilities.
This is definitely going in my "Videos that hurt so good" playlist.
I've been working on a project to hijack an actual mouse with Arduino/pi camera to do this with smoother movements. Stay tuned....Also, checkout my kickstarter video!
Worst idea = THE SHIT I NEEDED FOR AGES
You used the keyboard...
to code a keyboard...
In order to creat a trackpad...
what a madlad
That’s the greatest Idea to make a touchpad I’ve ever seen. Awesome video!
I appreciate the footage of you scrolling through documentation
Im actually impressed by the smoothing
That works way more smoothly than I expected
me: well that's not really a bad idea
me, when I realize exactly what he's going to do: you gotta be kidding
It seems to work a lot better than I thought a keyboard-trackpad would do!
Why do I appreciate people doing stuff like this so much?
There's nothing stupid about it; it's very clever. The end result is irrelevant, it's the "what if" that matters.
Bloody brilliant 👍 The agony would be truly realised on a high end mechanical keyboard.
I like it, even if it's more or less useless it shows how many possibilities there are.
Had the same dumb idea once... thank you for saving us all the time. You should send to chyrosan22 and have him review.
Donald Viszneki Now there's a good collab!
@@XalphYT nah just a funny cross promotion opportunity
@@donaldviszneki8251 since you and @XalphYT have the same pfp i thought you were replying to yourself
You know, this would be great for those keyboards that are projected onto a surface with light. You'd have a functional mouse in a lightweight transportable system. You also wouldn't have the problem of the bumpy keys. :)
This is how you prank a friend while ending the friendship
As soon as I realized what you were doing, I audibly groaned
Handy just in case i break my trackpad
Get an analog keyboard and make it use interpolation between keys for finer movement!
You'd have to hook into the driver for the keyboard though, AFAIK Windows doesn't have support for analog keyboards.
I ensure you this is better than the actual trackpad on my laptop
assure*
Stupid idea ?!
This is very productive !
You can control many PCs with only keyboard.
Man.
I had to subscribe
This guy is the first youtuber ever who i have subscribe on the first video.
Thankx to youtube to suggest me his video made my day.
it seems useful for straight lines.
This would be so incredible to have as an alternative to the numb red thingy that you see on ThinkPad laptops, but instead of that, you have the entire keyboard be used as a touchscreen-like trackpad
This would work perfectly with Apple Butterfly keyboard.
Think about it.
Sure it's a lame idea, but seems like a fun project! Glad you shared. Luv u bb
Are you his gf :o
@@1degabyte238 No; clearly his doggo.
Congratulation, you just gained a new subsciber.
I was legitimately confused. I thought he was doing an on screen keyboard, but then I realized it was much, much worse.
you know, this would make a cool product. a large touchpad with some light-up parts that glow when toggled to show a keyboard, but stay dim when toggled off to become a regulat track pad
The keyboard and the software should be sold together as one as a basic setup. Then there should be a premium version with gloves, such that the bleeding will be stopped and soaked while using the keyboard. Way better than my old notebooks trackpad!
You have EXACTLY the keyboard that I use! I have to try this now :D
*That's how genius solves problems*
this existing is a cursed image
Every frame of this is cursed
Assuming 30 fps, that's 155 seconds * 30 frames = 4650 cursed images, probably more
The only benefit, perfectly straight horizontal lines
I've been falling down this CodeParade rabbithole for 3 days now and i have no regrets
Yo, tf man I didn’t get this in my notification box even though I hit the bell, I want to see all of this dudes content immediately.
We were not ready for this fourth dimensional chess play
While you were outlining the keys I was just assuming you'd map keypresses to mouse clicks on location and use an overlay to communicate where your keyboard is 'located'. Maybe use the arrow keys to shift it around.
That touchpad looks amazing.
This is how the idea for vim was born
*Pure genius.*
0:21 How could you do that? Your mouse was broken and the trackpad app wasn't finnished.
MAGIC
He used a real life mouse
Keyboard commands you filthy mortal.
@@lelandclayton5462 chill
In Windows, there's a setting that lets you use the num pad to move the cursor...
Great idea and video! The problem is that the layout (position of keys) of each keyboard is slightly different, so the application created based on one keyboard may work in unexpected ways on other keyboards.
I ain't even mad..
That's amazing
Under X11 there has always been a way to emulate a mouse. Just press Shift+NumLock to toggle the function. This turns the number pad into a cursor-block for the mouse pointer.
That's actually pretty big brain
I remember those Yoga Books with the "Halo Keyboard" well... this could work on those touch based keyboards xd
Finally, a superior gaming product for aiming than the mouse.
I Love This Idea, You Just Got A New Sub!
When I did this, I gave up because of the pain of pressing buttons. (on netbook keyboard at that!)
So instead I mapped the keys to percentages of the screen, and used the numpad for actual precise movement.
Likewise, function keys to switch modes. In fact, capslock + function keys. No program ever going to use those combinations!
Works great since widescreen maps better to horizontal keyboard layouts. Not going to work well for portrait mode though lol
I suffered using that for a week until my new mouse arrived. Suffering.
But that suffering made it better and still something I use today for certain work.
Although it is just crappy Autohotkey script since to hell with screwing around with the low-level Win API stuff. It was poorly documented then and they've still not changed that much!
thats honestly really impressive
Denver Finn has returned
You’re such an inspiration
Nice projet, very interesting!
What have you done? You created a monster
Maybe impractical gadgets and funny ideas share an extremum.
THIS !
This should come pre-installed on every raspberry pi so you can still use it if you don't have a mouse
You should have a super secret shortcut that noone would press accidentally but that you can figure out upon a quick Google search
Something like LCtrl+RCtrl+Lshift+RShift+Alt+K
This is a very clever idea!
Imagine there would be an infrared sensor in every key... this would make it actually usefull. Would be a good idea for a laptop with without heigh keys (Surface or MacBook).
The keyboard tracking (at about 1:00) would actually be really cool for lets players
I don't know who you are, but you've just earned a subscriber
Some Russian startup already made this. TWICE. You are a madlad
I was hoping to see you build or at least reusing a scavenged track pad. Still cool.
This is actually genius
i have had this idea for like forever. thanks
This is amazing! I imagine this would actually work comfortably on something flatter like Apple's butterfly keyboard.
at first ithought he would use the camera and use something like eye track XD
Very well done!
Since I dont't see it in the top comments, I will say:
The song is perfect for it.
I really think I will implement something like this to quickly move my mouse to a spot on the screen, with something like Esc+key to move it to any point.
Might help make some window managers easier to use without the trackpad.
This is basically the Mokibo Keyboard (it’s on Kickstarter). Except with the Mokibo you don’t have to press the keys, and the key caps all touch so it’s almost a continuous surface.
I genuinely think this could be a good idea for Netbook keyboards!
I've had this idea before, so I'm glad someone else smarter than me had the same idea!
That was a neat idea though, as they say " It looked good on paper"
Now turn a trackpad into an horrible keyboard.
This is the innovation we need
I'll take your entire stonk
when you stood on the chair i thought you were really tall for a second
what have you brought upon this cursed land
what do you mean this is terrible this is the greatest achievement of mankind