[Andrea] just sent us this great student hack he made for his room. He’s constructed an Arduino keypad door lock — without using any proper fastening hardware! The entire build is made out of ...

The Arduino uses a shift register to interact with the keyboard’s 8×10 matrix, and the sketch translates any serial data it receives into the keypresses the clone is expecting.

Watch the video below to learn more about his Arduino-based portable keypad that connects to your Arduino development board and offers the complete alphabet, numbers 0-9 as well as several commands.

The Gesture Keyboard is a device that translates gestures into letters. It’s made by an Arduino Pro Micro, an HC-06 module for Bluetooth communication, and an MPU-6050 accelerometer.