Posts tagged with Mechanical-keyboard
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The Sound of Silence: Building a Quiet Mechanical Keyboard
Are you still typing away on a cheap rubber dome keyboard? If so, you might be missing out on the satisfying and efficient experience of using a mechanical keyboard. I’ve been using my own homemade mechanical keyboard for years now, and I can’t imagine going back. Furthermore, the 60% size...
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Better code for the MacroPad
A while ago I’ve made a MacroPad and I recently improved the code! In this post I’ll briefly show some advanced code to create a MacroPad class which allows custom functions to be added to key presses using a decorator. The original code as well as instructions how to build...
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Better Raspberry Pi Pico MIDI controller
To expand the number of notes/chords my RP2040 based MIDI controller can play we’ll turn two keys into modifiers. This way the other 7 buttons can actually each be assigned 4 different notes/chords (a default, pressed with modifier one, pressed with modifier two and pressed with both modifiers active). So...
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Tiny MIDI controller with Raspberry Pi Pico
With a MIDI library available for the Raspberry Pi Pico making a little MIDI “piano” is relatively easy. The MacroPad which I build last month is the perfect little device to play around with this. If you are interested in how to connect buttons and LEDs to a Pi Pico,...
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A Python powered MacroPad/StreamDeck
I decided to put left-over parts from my mechanical keyboard and a Raspberry Pi Pico to good use and build a MacroPad. This is a small keypad, where each switch can be programmed with a certain button or combination of buttons to quickly execute often needed shortcuts. Streamers often have...
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Building a Mechanical Keyboard
While I was vaguely aware there were some strange, expensive, small keyboards around I never bothered to find out what these were about. Until a colleague of mine showed up with one at work. After talking a bit about it with her and gathering more information building one seemed like...