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Ever since I got to know and love the emacs macro feature (record a sequence of commands, and replay it at a keypress), I've wanted to have this same superpower

Ever since I got to know and love the emacs macro feature (record a sequence of commands, and replay it at a keypress), I've wanted to have this same superpower at the hardware level. I'm making a keypad out of arcade buttons [1], an old box, and a teensy [2]. I excpect I'll have to write the record/playback code by myself (it's not too bad, there's an arduino / c-like language), but has anyone heard of such a thing? edit - Great! Looks like this keyboard has a macro ability built into it, only it's called "keylogger". Now to find the source code... [1] - http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/20pcs-lot-35mm-Arcade-Game-Machine-Push-Button-with-Micro-Switch-28mm-Mounting-Hole-Buttons/1192868_1871265879.html http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/20pcs-lot-35mm-Arcad... [2] - https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy.html https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy.html

gozo 11y ago
This board is based on a PIC. The teensy is a AVR (and later ARM). You want to look here instead: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/firmware https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/firmware
swah 11y ago
That would be pretty cool if replayed keys blinked "in real time".
masaleiro 11y ago
Hi! Project author here. The keyboard has both the macro functions (from F1 to F12) and the keylogger. Since it's completely open source / open hardware you can disable the keylogger in the firmware if you don't like it. I personally don't use it. No one uses the keyboard except me and I'm not going to log my own stuff :) . Just put it there to show that it is possible to do it. Regarding the source code, it's available in my github: https://github.com/masaleiro/HacKeyboard https://github.com/masaleiro/HacKeyboard