The video from the article for those who want to see the game in action before reading.
Reverse Engineering a Keyboard to Play Snake
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Re: Reverse Engineering a Keyboard to Play Snake
#22Enlightening... does anyone know if you can turn on/off the backlight of a single key on a macbook pro/air keyboard?
Re: Reverse Engineering a Keyboard to Play Snake
#23This was very educational. I find it equally hilarious, scary and wonderful that it's now cost-effective to build a keyboard whose brain is a 72 MHz ARM Cortex-M3 with 127 KB of program space. Of course the manufacturer also proudly tells you this, that the keyboard is powered by an ARM. It's also fun that the firmware of the keyboard is protected (partly by the old-faithful XOR trick, even!) against IP theft. Too ba…
It's "cost effective" for a €150 keyboard. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JM61264
They are normally €100 (including shipping) in Europe, but the ISO layout models are out of stock everywhere.
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#24This is what Hacker News is for.
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#25This is actually pretty nice, the guy is a Tweaker... Which means he is a member of the Dutch newssite : Tweakers.nl which is a very popular site for Dutch speaking persons (The Netherlands and Belgians). There is a video about it on (same as on the conclusion page of the site though) : http://tweakers.net/video/9730/tweaker-hackt-keyboard-om-sna...
I thought at first you were trying to say he was a meth addict :P
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#26I'm surprised no one is complaining about it being split into multiple pages considering this is HN and more inconsequential stuff have been complained about. I like skimming articles. Got to page 2 and lost interest. If it was all in one page, I may have found something of interest further down and gone back up to read the whole thing.
Would you like your waiter to cut up your food for you too?