Macropads have been all the fashion for fairly some time now. Nevertheless, many individuals nonetheless haven’t found how superior having a macropad will be! This Pico-based DIY Macropad Equipment is cheap and straightforward to construct. With a wide range of macropad firmwares obtainable for the Pico, you’ll have your alternative of find out how to customise it.

Whereas it doesn’t use mechanical keyboard keys like many macropads do, why spend the cash in case you’re undecided you’re going to search out it helpful? 6 keys is an effective quantity to begin with, sufficient to map your mostly used keyboard shortcuts or macros and nonetheless shortly memorize which is which. When you uncover that 6 buttons isn’t sufficient, you’ll be able to all the time hack extra buttons on, or transfer as much as an even bigger, meaner macropad with tons of RGB LEDs and the clickiest keys ever!

Even this starter equipment has just a few good touches, just like the LEDs beneath to provide a glow surrounding the macropad. It even has a button for turning them on and off! The instance code makes use of CircuitPython, however you can simply flash QMK or one other widespread macropad firmware if you wish to actually up your customization with out writing a bunch of code.