Posts tagged with Raspberry-pi
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Building a Custom Deej Volume Mixer with an RP2040 Pro Micro
Looking for a DIY hardware volume mixer to control individual app volumes effortlessly? Whether you’re a gamer, streamer, or audio enthusiast, manually adjusting software volume sliders can be frustrating. That’s where Deej, an open-source USB volume mixer, comes in. This guide will show you how I’ve built a Deej volume...
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Simple USB Type-C Upgrade for the Raspberry Pi Pico
With USB type C ports now commonplace, keeping micro-USB cables around for some devices can be a bit of a nuisance. The convenience of a single, reversible cable for nearly all your devices is undeniable, and in some devices the micro-USB port can actually be replaced with a USB type...
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XIAO-RP2040: A tiny RPi Pico alternative
Doing an electronics project where space comes at a premium? A regular rpi pico is to large? Have a look at the XIAO-RP2040 from Seeed Studio. Seeed Studio provided me a XIAO-RP2040 to review so let’s have a look at this nifty little board. The microchip is identical, though as...
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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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GameBoy Zero Builds
About a year ago I build a GameBoy Zero (a Raspberry Pi Zero in a gameboy shell) and this weekend I finished a second one. You can see some picture of the first one (black case) and the new one (transparant, blue shell) below. While I thought about doing a...