Category: UI
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October 6, 2025

GuitarPie Uses Guitar as Interface, No Raspberries Needed
We’ve covered plenty of interesting human input devices over the years, but how about an instrument? No, not as a MIDI controller, but to interact with what’s going on-on screen. That’s the job of GuitarPie, a guitar-driven pie menu produced by a group at the University of Stuttgart. The idea is pretty simple: the computer […]
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October 7, 2019

Designing Sci-Fi Hack Chat
Join us on Wednesday, October 9 at noon Pacific for the Designing Sci-Fi Hack Chat with Seth Molson! We all know the feeling of watching a movie set in a galaxy far, far away and seeing something that makes us say, “That’s not realistic at all!” The irony of watching human actors dressed up as […]
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June 17, 2019

Add Scroll Wheels and Buttons to Smartphones with 3D-Printed Widgets Read by Accelerometer
The first LED digital wristwatches hit the market in the 1970s. They required a button push to turn the display on, prompting one comedian to quip that giving one to a one-armed man would be in poor taste. While the UIs of watches and other wearables have improved since then, smartphones still present some usability […]
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June 12, 2019

Prusa Printer Gets an LCD-ectomy, Gains a VFD
What’s wrong with the OEM display on a Prusa I3 Mk3? Nothing at all. Then why replace the stock LCD with a vacuum fluorescent display? Because VFDs are much, much cooler than LCDs. (Pedantic Editor’s Note: VFDs actually run a little warm.) At least that’s the reasoning [Scott M. Baker] applied to his Prusa upgrade. […]
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