Fiction writer Benjamin T. Riitgers is a big fan of labor-saving technology. He decided to outsource the task of naming characters to a Teensy 2.0.

By augmenting a USB Human Interface Device (HID) with a second button, and the ability to read from a microSD card, he created The Character Name Generator – inspired by Matt Richardson’s Awesome Button. Now instead of a synonym for “awesome”, the non-manual nomenclator injects a random first and last name without any typing or thought required! All that was left was the addition of a snazzy case, and now the character name generator was all ready for automated appellation! Find more detail, including full instructions, on Instructables.