Show HN: Macpad – turn your game controller into a Mac mouse and keyboard

Category: cli-tool

Tags: macos, input-device, game-controller, hid, swift

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Macpad is a native macOS menubar agent that repurposes game controllers (DualShock, Xbox, Switch Pro) as full mouse and keyboard input devices, enabling seamless context switching for couch-based gaming and media setups. It's interesting because it combines raw HID report parsing to access hidden controller buttons with a polished, haptic-feedback-driven UI, solving a specific ergonomic problem for Mac gamers.

Target audience: backend devs

Repository: https://github.com/henit-chobisa/macpad · Swift · MIT

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