Mechanical Cherry MX blue keyboard emulator for Mac OS X

keyclacker is a daemon that plays sounds of mechanical keyboard when you press keys on your Mac keyboard. For those occasions when you cannot bring your mechanical friend with you.

WARNING - it is a quick crude implementation, use at your own risk.

See this tweet for a demo video.

Code is forked from and based on this keylogger: caseyscarborough/keylogger

All key logging functionality was removed, your keystrokes are not being recorded.

Alternatives

• millerjs/modelm

Usage

Start by cloning the repository and running the proper make commands, shown below. By default, the application installs to /usr/local/bin/keyclacker, which can easily be changed in the Makefile. make install requires root access.

$ git clone https://github.com/spajus/keyclacker && cd keyclacker
$ make && sudo make install

$ sudo keyclacker

If you'd like the application to run on startup, run the startup make target:

$ sudo make startup

Uninstallation

You can completely remove the application from your system (including the startup daemon) by running the following command:

$ sudo make uninstall

Optional Parameters

You can pass the volume value for the program (default volume is 1, which is pretty quiet).

# Be very loud
$ keyclacker 10

TODO / Known Issues / Bugs

• It's using system call to afplay to play sounds. CoreAudio or OpenAL should be used instead for much better performance.
• Repeating keys produced by a long key press should not produce any sound.
• Modifier keys don't produce correct sounds when pressed in bulk.
• Add more variety and stereo range.

Contributing

Feel free to fork the project and submit a pull request with your changes!