Project Infin_IT is a portable computer shaped like a boombox. The two front panels that resemble speakers are actually removable wireless keyboards. At the back, an SSD is housed in a cassette-shaped cartridge.

Maker Watt IV combined a Framework Laptop 12 mainboard with a salvaged iPad screen and webcam. The carrying handle also doubles as a stand.

KeyboaStick is a 3D-printed mechanism that replaces the W, A, S and D keycaps with parts linked to a small joystick. Tilting the stick presses the corresponding keyboard keys through articulated linkages.

Created by Korean maker FunOrNothing, the design uses mostly print-in-place joints. A Make: editor tested it by playing Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with the modified keyboard.

Google's Gboard team has unveiled Gboard Carousel, a DIY keyboard that places keys on moving conveyor belts. Rather than moving your hand across a stationary keyboard, you wait for the desired key to pass under your finger and press it at the right moment.

Each belt holds 29 keys, including direct access to uppercase and lowercase letters. The design supports one-handed input. Google does not plan to sell it, but has published open-source plans for anyone who wants to build one.

M5Flick is an input interface that lets users type Japanese by punching a cushion while wearing a red glove. Instead of flicking a phone screen with a finger, the user turns full-body motions into text input, including moves styled after a Shoryuken uppercut.

Creator Hatake / Furukawa built it with M5Stack and UnitV2 hardware, combining text entry with a stress-relief punching interface.

Maker Mirza Makes modified a television remote so its number and control buttons can be used as a computer keyboard. The remote is an input device rather than the computer itself, and it was demonstrated with a Raspberry Pi 5-based handheld PC.

Inside the remote, the membrane keypad is connected to an MCP23017 I/O expander, which sends the button states to the Raspberry Pi over I2C. Rather than appearing as a conventional USB keyboard, the remote's buttons are read directly and turned into computer input.

Adafruit's John Park built One Key, a wireless mechanical keyboard containing exactly one key. It connects as a Bluetooth HID device and can act as a mute button, presentation clicker, macro launcher or other configurable control.

Despite having only one physical key, it can send characters, combinations such as Ctrl-Z, strings and media commands. A WebSerial interface also configures LED colors and sleep behavior. The input hardware has been reduced to almost nothing, while the configuration for deciding what that one button means has become impressively rich.

Hasbro's 1999 Easy-Bake Kitchen is a plastic kitchen playset that straps over a standard PC keyboard. Moving its measuring cup, egg, mixer, oven door and other controls simply presses real keys underneath, letting children operate the accompanying CD-ROM cooking game through a physical toy interface.

LGR's Clint Basinger revisited the hardware in September 2026 and eventually remapped its controls to play DOOM II. A toy designed to turn a keyboard into a pretend kitchen becomes, decades later, an extremely impractical FPS controller.