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We just added new features to SoundSlide, our tiny USB-C touch slider that started as a dedicated volume control. It can now be reconfigured to control screen brightness or scroll content—perfect for videos, documents, or long webpages.

The device works as a USB HID keyboard, so no drivers are needed. You can change its behavior via the configuration tool.

SoundSlide is open-source, works on macOS, Windows, and Linux, and fits in your fingertip.

Happy to hear feedback from the community!

New batch arrived. Check out the open source touch sensitive compact volume control to your USB port.

Check the brand new SoundSlide - compact USB device which allows to change audio volume with just a swipe of your finger.

Hey HN,

We're Drake Labs, and we've developed SoundSlide, a touch-sensitive device for effortless laptop audio control. It's designed to make volume adjustments as simple as a swipe—no more fumbling with function keys. We're preparing to launch on Indiegogo and would love feedback from the community.

Check out our pre-launch page and let us know what you think about the device and its potential uses!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/soundslide/coming_soon

Thanks in advance for your insights!

Which Dockerfiles do you mean, please? There are only Linux images. Dockerfiles are then prepared by owners of devices.

Nice!

The reason was easy integration with PostgreSQL over PAM. I will check if the same could be achieved with Wireguard. Technically, already deployed devices can switch to other VPN tunnel, so there is nothing preventing us from the change.

I can understand your concern if there is no privacy policy nor documentation and whole thing seems like a black box. To be honest, the post on CNX-SOFTWARE was published a bit faster than we expected so we are catching a running train now :) Anyway, PP, ToS and documentation is the priority now. We would like to be as transparent as possible, most likely the whole solution will be open source in future. To your question about kernels: to simplify it for now, we are just modifying standard Armbian and Raspbian images available on their websites. Complete build process on our side is something we are considering to implement.

Yes, there is VPN tunel from the device to device.farm servers. It is openconnect VPN. device.farm server then acts as a reverse proxy. User needs to authenticate in order to access the device's service. We are sorry, there is no ToS and Privacy Policy available yet, it should appear in following days.

You can change the root password after first boot the same way you would do with Raspbian or Armbian image. We just want to shorten the time the device is running with a default password. You can think of that entered password as it is a temporary one. Wifi configuration is completely optional. You can leave it unconfigured and do it later over serial line. We don't keep any credentials on our servers.