The idea behind USBValve is to have the onboard microcontroller advertise itself as a storage device, pretending to have a filesystem with some common files available. To help get some piece of mind, created USBValve to help expose suspicious USB activity on the fly. USB devices are now ubiquitous and, from an information security standpoint, this is a terrifying prospect as malicious software can potentially be injected into a system by plugging in a compromised USB stick. Video after the break.Ĭontinue reading “Solenoid Keyboard Sounds Very Much Like A Typewriter” → Posted in Peripherals Hacks Tagged keyboard, mechanical keyboard, solenoid We’ve seen some other great keyboards over the years, like this nifty split-board design. Click-clack fans will love it, while those with sensitive ears will scream at any cube neighbours that dare to buy one and switch it on.įiles are available on Github for the curious. It fires away with every keypress when enabled, creating a sound more akin to a real typewriter than any mechanical keyboard we’ve ever heard. The joy of the solenoid edition is in, you guessed it, the solenoid. You get just a faint slide-and-click noise from the keyboard under regular use. selected the Silent Alpacas from Durock, noted for their quiet operation, particularly when lubricated. It all comes down to the switches used in the design. It can be nearly silent if you so desire, or it can clack away with the best of them (via Hackster.io). The solenoid edition of the Red Herring keyboard from understands the beauty of this sound intimately. For others, it’s just for the pure joy of the finger-powered symphony. For many of us, they take us back to that loud clickity-clack that was so common before consumer keyboards went to membrane switches. Mechanical keyboards are muchly adored things.
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