Engineering student Federico Terzi has created a new input device aptly named the Gesture Keyboard which, as the name suggests, converts gestures into keystrokes thanks to a little Arduino ...

The Arduino/Shield can be soldered together with either on top, but I prefer the Arduino up to maintain access to the reset button and pin assignment silkscreen.

The keyboard, which he is calling z.48, is based around the Arduino Pro Micro running a firmware generated on kbfirmware.com, and features some absolutely fantastic hand-wiring.

The Arduino uses a shift register to interact with the keyboard’s 8×10 matrix, and the sketch translates any serial data it receives into the keypresses the clone is expecting.

To make that actually work, Robofun paired an Arduino board with some capacitive controllers for the base, and connected that to a Raspberry Pi that linked the keyboard to the TV.

Running out of GPIO pins? Learn how to connect multiple buttons to just one Arduino pin using clever wiring and resistor techniques. Perfect for compact projects, keyboards, or when using small ...