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Mac hardware toys – pipe your accelerometer into your keyboard lights
Modular synth approach to Mac hardware; lid angle pipes into speaker is chef's kiss.
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nikisweeting
413mo ago
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🔆 Programmatically control Mac keyboard & display brightness, accelerometer data, fan speed, microphone, speaker, and more like modular synth components connected by shell piping.
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Mac-hardware toys, control your Mac's hardware like a modular synth
by nikisweeting·Apr 2, 2026·8 points·1 comment
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Piping accelerometer data through audio filters to flash keyboard lights is genuinely wild.
Strengths
- •Treating hardware sensors as composable audio signals via shell pipes is genuinely inventive.
- •pip installable with --raw and --json output modes for easy scripting integration.
- •Covers 10+ hardware endpoints from fan speed to lid angle with consistent CLI interface.
Weaknesses
- •Mac-only limits audience; most use cases lean novelty over daily utility.
- •Requires root access for many sensors, adding friction to automation workflows.
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Target Audience
Mac power users, creative coders, hardware hackers
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