Mech keyboard sounds driven by a hidden accelerometer in MacBooks
Details
- External ID
- 47415468
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Mech keyboard sounds driven by a hidden accelerometer in MacBooks
- Website domain
- haptyk.com
- Launched
- March 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2853628536285363
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- custom keyboards and input controllers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- keyboard sound effects from macbook accelerometer
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Accessing undocumented Apple Silicon hardware accelerometers via IOKit HID at 1,000Hz and matching microsecond typing force requires reverse-engineering private macOS hardware interfaces.
What it would actually take: The app requires low-level Swift or Objective-C/C++ interacting with private macOS IOKit frameworks and Mach kernel primitives to poll the undocumented Sensor Processing Unit (SPU) HID streams without root privileges. It must handle high-frequency sensor signal processing to extract impact velocity vectors and synchronize them with low-latency CoreAudio buffers within single-digit milliseconds. This necessitates specialized reverse engineering of proprietary Apple hardware and real-time audio systems engineering.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #382 of 486 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 132 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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