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I'm going through the process of making a custom macropad myself. I used the rp2040 as the processor. And now that the macropad is mostly complete, I do belie
by bb88 2y ago
I'm going through the process of making a custom macropad myself. I used the rp2040 as the processor.
And now that the macropad is mostly complete, I do believe though that the next one I do will have an RPi or a CM4 compute module embedded inside of it.
There's some interesting concepts I'd like to pursue like, building a combo usb-c keyboard / cyberdeck. One idea I'd like to explore is reprogramming the cyberdeck on the fly as I'm typing.
- atiedebee 2y agoWhy would you need a CM4 in a macro pad? Isn't it mostly used to send keystrokes?
- bb88 2y agoLet's say I want that CM4 to sync with BitWarden say and have it send keystrokes for passwords. I would also be able to create a strong password, and back that up to BitWarden without any issue. Or I want to back up my keystrokes when interfacing to a computer. Or I want to play retro emulated games while my code is deploying to the dev environment at work... Or I want to use it as a platform for my own custom cyberdeck to take with me to conferences... Or I want to create custom devices with nifty user interfaces that do one thing really well... maybe listen to GPS and send out a 10Mhz timing signal to my lab....