BLE Morse keyboard Mikey Sklar shared a wireless one-handed keyboard with Morse code as input method.
KBD.news Published May 6, 2024
This four-key device, created by Mikey Sklar , is not really a macropad but a BLE keyboard: using Adafruit components, it is capable of outputtin any ASCII character.
A few months ago I put together a 4-key Morse code keyboard that translates out to ASCII characters and connects over BLE. It is a simple design with source code, BOM and design files – Mikey.
Based on CircuitPython and Crysknife 's morsePico project , it uses Morse code dots and dashes with a lookup table to translate characters.
Features
The key operations are the following:
Key 1: '.' # dot
Key 2: '-' # dash
Key 3: ' ' # will do a space between words or show the Morse code buffer contents
Key 4: SEND # translates Morse code sequence to ASCII, sends ASCII over BLE
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Published on Mon 6th May 2024. Featured in KBD #164 .
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