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mousepods

Your AirPods are a mouse: AirPods 3 head tracking on Linux, and the first public documentation of Apple RemoteHID (HID over AACP)

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GITHUB · launched Nov 4, 2026 · 255 upvotes (top 16%) · 0 views

Niche: hardware device drivers and utility software · 178 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -5% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Hardware & robotics
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • aacp
  • accessibility
  • airpods
  • airpods-3
  • apple-accessory-protocol
  • bluetooth
  • +9 more

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Could you build this?

No The core value is reverse-engineering Apple's undocumented RemoteHID protocol over AACP and getting AirPods motion sensors to stream on Linux, which requires Bluetooth/HID protocol expertise and physical hardware to test against.

What it would actually take: You would need to capture and analyze Bluetooth L2CAP and AACP traffic between AirPods and a device, document the RTBuddy channel and HID report format, then build a Linux userspace driver (likely Python with BlueZ/uinput) that exposes the sensor data as a mouse. The hard part is the protocol reverse engineering and the iterative hardware testing, which requires someone comfortable with Bluetooth internals and low-level Linux input subsystems.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 170 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #47 of 171 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 233 days after the earliest competitor.

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  • ntpods · github · 2026-09-30 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.58
  • LookBack · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • HyperPods-X · github · 2026-10-25 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • HeadOrbit · github · 2026-09-13 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • AirVeil · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • WPods · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52

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