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🔆 Programmatically control Mac keyboard & display brightness, accelerometer & gyro, lid angle, ambient brightness, fan speed, microphone, speaker, and more like modular synth components connected by shell piping.

3 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 2 stories, 1 comment · first 2026-02-27 · latest 2026-04-02

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    Show HN: Mac-hardware toys, control your Mac's hardware like a modular synth
    story by nikisweeting · 2026-04-02 · 1 comment
  2. …2 | tee >(keyboard-brightness) | visualizer sudo gyroscope | sudo fan-speed Lots more here: https://github.com/pirate/mac-hardware-toys
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    Show HN: Mac hardware toys – pipe your accelerometer into your keyboard lights
    story by nikisweeting · 2026-02-27 · 1 comment