I'm giving away my daily driver laptop to a friend. It's nothing crazy a 2015 i7 Macbook Pro. Anyway I wanted to daily drive an RPi 4 as a basic browser/linux machine.

I have had this 8GB model lying around so I decided now is the time to use it.

The trilidar mouse thing is funny, I was like "oh I don't have a spare mouse"... I could make one.

Mostly I don't like the idea of a loose mouse you gotta keep track of.

What sucks with this project is there isn't a power bus bridge thing (y-splitter USB cable) but I'll look into that.

The mouse is honestly the coolest part of the project since it has to work as a mouse somehow and I'll have to look into that.

I'll work on this after tomorrow (Sunday) since I'll have some days off then.

I bought this keyboard but I never really liked it. The sideways profile is like an n-shape which is weird, it should be a u IMO.

But I like the keycap color and sound/thickness of the caps.

These sensors the purple Pololu VL53L0X have a really wide cone... that's what I'm counting on here.

It's possible the accuracy is just bad but I'm thinking the triangle part... the pulsing would be done in a sequence so the beams don't hit each other/trip the receiving end.