Things To Do With A Broken Laptop: Touchpad Hacking (part 2)

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Things To Do With A Broken Laptop: Touchpad Hacking (part 2)

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5 жыл бұрын

It's been a couple weeks guys...where have you been?!?! Yeah, my bad. Sorry it's been so long! Let's finish up this touchpad project! If you haven't seen part 1 of this project, you can get caught up here: • Things To Do With A Br... In part 2 of this project, we're going to look at controlling a servo with the touchpad. Then eventually, we will use it to control a robotic arm! You can find helpful links go guide you along in the "important links" section below. This'll be fun! Also, GO BUY MY BOOK :-)
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@hed420 5 жыл бұрын

Turn the laptop's keyboard into a drum machine or midi controller.

@drakerangers682 5 жыл бұрын

hed420 what is a drum machine used for ??

@DDBAA24 5 жыл бұрын

@@drakerangers682 Making beats digitally look up MPC machine, I am sure there is better hardware now. I took a video, radio production class over a decade ago that was the top of the line machine then. I used the MPC with Protools for audio & editing video on final cut pro hd lol , to give you perspective on the time period I was still using a fire wire.

@fabius7120 5 жыл бұрын

Turn the laptop display into a display with a standard port (hdmi, dvi...)

@carsonlight_lapse6394 5 жыл бұрын

I do believe that there are tutorials on doing this (I watched DIY perks), what you need is to buy a laptop screen controller and a power supply and this should work (ofc you can search "DIY perks portable laptop screen")

@eDRoaCH 5 жыл бұрын

I can't quite tell, but if the touch pad has hardware buttons (left and right click) this could be a "3rd axis" that could be used fairly intuitively for open/close claw or similar

@kaptn_kage 2 жыл бұрын

I came here to say that

@moisesmosso6328 5 жыл бұрын

Never clicked so fast on a video 😂😂😂 love you chanel by the way, have to save money from now to buy your book 💪

@thomsnikkers1933 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe a little late but instead of writing the "pos +=1;" for the servo use: "pos +=mx" and for "pos -=1;" : "pos -=-mx". Because then you can control the turn speed of the servo with how fast you move your finger over the touchpad.

@spongebobfan384 5 жыл бұрын

When I found your channel in 2009 it blew my mind. You always make excellent content and are one of the main reasons I decided to go into an IT career. Thank you and keep up the great work

@antanasxg1 5 жыл бұрын

If the touch pad can detect multiple fingers it would be nice to add more functionality, about the rest: maybe a mini NAS? Or a local web server, maybe a control panel for other diy projects (smart home like devices)

@badcatalex 5 жыл бұрын

Can't believe I forgot this guy existed!

@Daniel_730 5 жыл бұрын

Very good video! Can you add gestures to the touchpad? For example, draw an "L" and turn on the lights, or draw an "M" and start an engine.

@erikpoephoofd 5 жыл бұрын

That's really super hard to do

@wi_zeus6798 5 жыл бұрын

@@erikpoephoofd well you don't need to reinvent the wheel and search the internet instead. I don't know whether the Arduino is capable of such tasks, but I'm pretty confident that it would definitely work on the faster boards

@erikpoephoofd 5 жыл бұрын

@@wi_zeus6798 You're right, just found that the Raspberry Pi supports a gesture library. Pretty nice

@ColinXYZ 5 жыл бұрын

Continuing with the robotic arm idea, you could reuse a few of the buttons from the keyboard and program them to act as a method of selecting different servos for the robotic arm.

@highthththfhghfsdgh 4 жыл бұрын

I have a couple touch screens, one from a POS monitor that has all the hardware, can you reuse the touchscreen hardware for anything else?

@Rsm583 5 жыл бұрын

Reuse webcam and turn into security camera

@loray2k 5 жыл бұрын

Robert Mathew I like this idea.

@consolehacker54 5 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure the webcam works the same way, it's just internally a USB device. You could solder a USB cable to it and do whatever you wanted with it connected to a computer/raspberry pi

@LukeZain 5 жыл бұрын

DIYPerks did it

@milky4887 4 жыл бұрын

@@LukeZain yup

@_P0tat07_ 5 жыл бұрын

-Turn the keyboard into a usb keyboard, -Use the Arduino to pull audio files from the sd card slot (if the laptop has one) and play them from the laptops speaker. -play with the lcd screen

@Kulgia 2 жыл бұрын

Here's an idea. I was wondering if you could emulate touchpad into an analog joystick. Also would be amazing to connect it to the phone because a lot of games nowadays requires you to drag your finger across the screen to move the camera which feels kinda tedious. The touchpad would be placed at back of the phone where you other fingers can control it.

@Rsm583 5 жыл бұрын

Another option sale on eBay if you have a broken laptop and unable to repair and don't want to salvage/hack. Or if you have parts left over after salvaging sale it. People sale broken equipment all the time just make sure the listing is honest and accurate. Don't expect much money in return when doing this.

@thecatguy Жыл бұрын

hi , i wanted to know that what programming language was it that you used in the video

@Rsm583 5 жыл бұрын

Reuse laptop battery for other projects?

@xpanza 3 жыл бұрын

can you wire external pciex graphhic card to an laptop without adapters?

@Tym17Aero 5 жыл бұрын

would it be possible to reuse an android phone's screen?

@nashonightmare 4 жыл бұрын

Hey! Here is an idea. We can divide the lats and longs for specific movements and for control specific units of the arm. And we can use this to control the speed of the arm. It might be a good controller for a drone imo.

@RealRuler2112 5 жыл бұрын

I'd like to know how to connect the screen to a Raspberry Pi. Also, it'd be slick if you could wire the touchpad to the Pi without that clunky PS2-USB converter in the way. =)

@hed420 5 жыл бұрын

Remove the lcd from the laptop and see if you can find a compatible LCD Controller for your display model. LCD controllers go anywhere from $15 to $80 and have a variety of inputs including vga, hdmi, svideo, etc.. It's pretty simple, plug and play. Plenty of tutorials here on YT.

@linamarieholt4189 3 жыл бұрын

Would it be possible to connect it to a music program? Such as ableton and the programming software MAX? i wanted to create my own modulator :)

@prabhattripathivlogs 4 жыл бұрын

Please try turning your laptops keyboard into an external usb keyboard or also make it wireless because nothing on the web is available related to this stuff

@TCreatorO 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see you reuse a BMW iDrive control and see what can you do with its many inputs

@pariscloud2907 5 жыл бұрын

Make a wireless keyboard from the keyboard and make a smart picture frame from the screen.

@Paturnus1 5 жыл бұрын

How about using the display to turn an old overhead projector into a device that would project the laptop screen onto the wall? Is this even possible?

@caseywhite7660 5 жыл бұрын

The screen. Depending on the specific LCD model, you can buy a breakout board to use it on a Raspberry Pi.

@MRrwmac 5 жыл бұрын

That was cool. How about taking out the camera and connecting via Ethernet to a NAV or POE for a tiny hidden camera in a porch light at the front door for security?

@filipstamcar6553 5 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to detect multiple fingers at same time?

@prajwalvernekar75 5 жыл бұрын

Remove the webcam and speaker and attach to the drone or a robot and display wirelessly on laptop screen

@mydom96 5 жыл бұрын

"What's my purpose?" Rick: "Pass the butter"

@davidk3177 5 жыл бұрын

How about the wifi or BT module to remotely control the robotic arm? Might as well expand on the current project.. BTW, you rock. Thanks for the awsome content. Its rich and useful.

@greammreaper 5 жыл бұрын

Not entirely related but not off topic I have a few old smart phones and some wireless speakers Does anyone have a clue if I can transform those into something similar to Alexa /Google home?

@imppaco 5 жыл бұрын

Re-using the Camera, Mic or Monitor? I know not all will have a Cam/mic, but it'd be really cool since they're so tiny!

@Slainte_Mhath 5 жыл бұрын

Use the display and the webcam to build an Video-Phone using a PI and Python

@ganapathyab9066 5 жыл бұрын

Use a camera from an old feature phone in a project. I have a few lying around but don't know how to use these in projects. Do you know how I might be able to obtain pc drivers for these cameras?

@samsonmbbanda6564 2 жыл бұрын

Lates... am curious can you make a phone touch screen work as a computer touchpad, i would love to see that happen😁

@lukaskarpovicius5323 5 жыл бұрын

could you make this touchpad as a volume control? for example you move your finger to right, volume goes up, and reverse.

@Rsm583 5 жыл бұрын

Check eBay for lcd controller to reuse laptop monitor. It would be cool if it could be connected to a raspberry pi zero w. Remove the old keyboard and add a Bluetooth replacement. Imagine having the ability to slide out the Bluetooth keyboard and have something underneath like arcade button's for emulators. A modular laptop type setup. Just random ideas good luck.

@exoflame8763 5 жыл бұрын

Why not just pos+=mc; myservo.write(pos); this way it would acount for the speed of movment on the touchpad.

@tuscaderofour 4 жыл бұрын

Can the laptop's fingerprint sensor be re-used to unlock something?

@loray2k 5 жыл бұрын

I got my first phone (Nokia) back in 2000. I kept it to show my kids what phones looked like back then. What could I use it for now?

@Rsm583 5 жыл бұрын

Perhaps as a prank you can gut the old nokia phone and add a Bluetooth microphone. Give people the impression the phone is still great and get someone to take a picture of their startled faces. If only the microphone can be setup to use Google home or alexa....

@Rsm583 5 жыл бұрын

Gut old phone turn into a USB power bank or add small Bluetooth speaker.

@jaimemunoz5920 5 жыл бұрын

So I would love to see something like a glove with a track point on it to more easily control a cursor for stuff like entertainment systems.

@Saketh-Chandra 5 жыл бұрын

Can we do Controlling an RC car with touchpad?

@Tinulla 5 жыл бұрын

Hold LMB to clamp, then RMB to release?

@godwinchristopher953 5 жыл бұрын

can we use the touchpad as midi x/y pad??

@4-est 5 жыл бұрын

Can you mix an acer aspire one 751h with raspberry pi ? I mean take out the eee pc motherboard and replace it with a raspberry pi(maybe zero), keeping the battery, charger, keyboard, touchpad and Display :D

@nabeeghahmed8530 5 жыл бұрын

Only original KZfaqr available

@loray2k 5 жыл бұрын

Nabeegh Ahmed True, lol.

@eskohc984 3 жыл бұрын

you are a good guy really, but have som respect dude, you are talking to us like we are in kinergarden.

@lPelado 4 жыл бұрын

Connect the trackpad via bluetooth with your smart TV to use it as a controller. Also use the keyboard.

@mohammadmahiristehad9196 5 жыл бұрын

Help me my touch pad is one piece with the body. How do I get it off? Dell inspiron 3421.

@abrahammagnifico9538 5 жыл бұрын

so fucking happy that i discovered you !

@JuankM1050 5 жыл бұрын

I can do that but with a raspberry?

@uzairmukadam6135 5 жыл бұрын

Please find a way to use laptop lcd without a control board

@tubevolts 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe I can find the old Theremin software for Synaptics touchpads. Remap the disable function to output as audio. But 4 touchpads on one PC: basis for best drunk competitive indie game ever!

@tubevolts 5 жыл бұрын

One of the first Steam games I ever had tracked multiple mice, so that exists. Some ragdoll martial-arts indie thing.

@DiyintheGhetto 5 жыл бұрын

Hey Tinkernut. What about tap on the track pad? A lot of track pad have tap function on them. Sense your robot arm has 4 Servos on it, Tap for the first two servers and tap again for the Third and forth servo function?

@TDGalea 5 жыл бұрын

It's software (the drivers) that detects a tap. Of course, an Arduino (or whatever you use) could detect it just as well.

@DiyintheGhetto 5 жыл бұрын

@@TDGalea Oh i know. But it can be added to the arduino. to do the same thing for the Robot.

@RealRuler2112 5 жыл бұрын

@@DiyintheGhetto I was thinking that same thing... X axis rotates, Y axis controls up-down, tap closes the claw, double-tap opens the claw. =)

@htiguy1 5 жыл бұрын

Can you put a usb connection on the keyboard?

@rogerlee3394 5 жыл бұрын

I would have probably done something like while "Y" is greater than "sumNum" do this and so on. Instead of having to constantly swipe, could have more fluid. control

@davidrubio8673 5 жыл бұрын

great video

@snowpython 5 жыл бұрын

Screen to make a portable crash cart?

@traceswann7054 5 жыл бұрын

use the webcam for... idk webcam purposes, mini security system, attach it to a drone or something like that

@sponmagnet 5 жыл бұрын

reuse the keyboard as an independent keyboard that can be plugged to usb ports

@everybody5087 5 жыл бұрын

Use the laptop screen and put on a console and take the battery of the laptop connecting it to the console and have a portable console

@Jdjsksjdhdj 4 жыл бұрын

`i want to put a single board in a laptop to revive it the laptop itself is built well

@Deevro9 5 жыл бұрын

How to reuse broken HDD?

@Rsm583 5 жыл бұрын

2.5 sata hard drive enclosure

@ichbinmichify 5 жыл бұрын

Tie the touchpad into the smart car. Up is accelerate, left is left, et cetera. Drive by wire, my friend.

@duncanx99 5 жыл бұрын

Using a collection of dead laptops to flatten a pile of old papers was as far as I got...

@mbk0mbk 5 жыл бұрын

Turn laptop keyboard to PS2,use wifi card to connect to PC pcie ,make a connector that connect laptop chip to PC ,same for RAM or MAKE RAM A STORAGE DEVICE WITH A BUTTON CELL OR POWERBANK ITS GOOD FOR SECURITY AND VERY QUICK DATA TRANSFER (THIS ONE I DIDN'T SEE ANYONE ).

@mbk0mbk 5 жыл бұрын

Ram as temporary storage especially for file transfer is good with 2-4Gbps and secure if you remove the power it clear(only ddRAM I am not sure with sdRAM)

@robertjohnsoni9898 5 жыл бұрын

How make a atifical intelligence (a.i)

@HCtres 5 жыл бұрын

Bluetooth?

@Laflamablanca969 5 жыл бұрын

I’d like to see you fix the focus on your camera 👍

@ThePatarack 5 жыл бұрын

Plot quadrants on the pad and control each servo with 1/4 of the pad

@Thepuffingyank 5 жыл бұрын

Turn the hinges into things necessary for future videos

@arcsmith4115 5 жыл бұрын

Heatpipes. Try to cool and overclock a pi with the coming solution in there.

@hwalker928 5 жыл бұрын

Use the webcam to create a CCTV camera :) That word be fun :)

@Paturnus1 5 жыл бұрын

OR, I saw an advertisement for a "laptop" case for a Raspberry Pi that had a keyboard, a display, access to the various io ports, power supply, etc. They wanted almost $450 bucks for the darn thing! Would be a good second life for a used up laptop. What say ye, Omnipotent Tech God (aka Tinkernut!)?

@peerappel2012 5 жыл бұрын

the display would be interesting! :-)

@d3stinYwOw 5 жыл бұрын

Maybe hook up audio controller to the Arduino?

@princeshezy007 5 жыл бұрын

maybe re prrpose old phone component

@Adryyy 5 жыл бұрын

Keyboard! How to reuse the keyboard??

@Tyrone-Ward 5 жыл бұрын

But why?

@SleepyRulu 5 жыл бұрын

New video yay

@danielmarinmoreno3131 5 жыл бұрын

The laptop screen in to a toch screen for any rasberry pi

@mynyasabut 2 жыл бұрын

use the touchpad to control movent of the reporpused camera of the laptop :) "touchpad controlled camera"

@janakpatel6938 5 жыл бұрын

Hey! Please make drone using touchpad

@Stinosko 5 жыл бұрын

No more written tutorials or do we have to buy your book to have a written guidance? :-)

@submarine.7seas 5 жыл бұрын

Turn a Logitech k400 into a wireless track pad by removing the keyboard and putting making it as small as possible. Full disclosure I have a dead keyboard but the track pad still works fine so I am planing to do this at sometime.

@messina8933 5 жыл бұрын

How to reuse old laptop screens as another monitor.

@AbdullahAli-wu2rz 5 жыл бұрын

let's see what you can do with the screen

@randallbishop7067 5 жыл бұрын

use two wifi adapters to control r/c airplane.

@imGeeyo 5 жыл бұрын

Use a button to switch between different servo. Hack the webcam!!

@eagleyesask1980 5 жыл бұрын

I didn't get the notification of this video

@MrHbpatel 5 жыл бұрын

Old Android mobile touch screen ??

@magum23 5 жыл бұрын

Make wireless camera from the laptop's one

@mhersaribekyan1487 5 жыл бұрын

Well you reused the touchpad. Now you should reuse the keyboard or make a midi keyboard from it. Also try putting the WiFi-Bluetooth adapter in a PC!!!