More about Input Labs
Who are we?
Input Labs Oy. (OsakeYhtiö) is a small company established in Finland, Europe.
Founded in 2022 by 2 friends, both engineers and gamers: Marcos (born in Spain) and Michael (born in Germany). Later several friends joined as testers, idea givers and contributors. And now we are waiting for you.
You can talk with us on Discord anytime.
Our principles and goals
We embrace open source, backward compatibility, right to repair, and privacy. We are disgusted by FOMO, predatory sales, and people imposing their preferences.
We are not a startup, our goal is not to grow artificially, but to create a stable environment for research and development.
We welcome and support everyone in our community, we do not leave anyone behind.
Get in contact
If you want to collaborate with us, check the Contribute section.
For journalism or videogame media topics, check the Press section.
For other generic inquiries, send us a message to (Cannot be copied)
Do you sell controllers?
Short answer: No.
Long answer: We are selling selected components and DIY kits, and try to make as easy as possible for people to build their own DIY controllers, adapted to their needs.
"We give you the recipe, but you cook the pizza".
The Alpakka components page outlines which components are required to build a controller and from where to source them.
What does the logo mean?
The logo is a sinusoidal wave representing an analog signal, being captured by code brackets (digital), in the shape of an hexagon, because hexagons are the bestagons.
I'm not high, I promise.
When you think blue, green, or red, you associate these with some specific videogame brands, right? We don't settle with a single color, because our favorite color is your favorite color.
On the shoulders of giants
Input Labs wouldn't be possible without other open source projects, our love and gratitude goes to these legends:
- KiCad: An incredible tool for PCB design.
- Blender: The acclaimed 3D app we're abusing as CAD.
- Build123d: CAD with Python code.
- TinyUSB: A simple library for USB communication.
- Raspberry: You may have heard about these guys.
- Pug: The HTML template library this web is made with.
- Plausible: Privacy-friendly web analytics.
Why these funny animal names?
We named our 2 first devices Alpakka and Kapybara, these are actually spelt correctly in finnish language. That's our little tribute to Finland, a country that took us as their own fellows.
We also find funny when gaming companies call their products with 90's style rad animal names, such as the "Cobra", "Black Puma", or "Death Hornet" (not actual names).
Instead we go for the most huggable, weird, and cute animals. Please give us ideas for the next ones!
Privacy
This website do not use cookies, do not store any personal information, and respect your privacy. We do not care who you are! and that's a good thing.
For aggregated usage stats we use Plausible, an open-source web analytics tool which is 100% anonymous, do not track you across different websites nor devices, and is hosted in the European Union (covered by strict privacy laws).
For details, read the full Privacy policy.