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BOB single-key "keyboard"

An open-source single-key USB keyboard by u/dr2mod called Big Orange Button.

KBD.news
Published July 10, 2022

Dmytro Panin aka dr2mod came up with a customizable single-key 3D-printed board using a Tiny2040 controller.

I’ve designed a single-key USB keyboard called BOB (Big Orange Button) – dr2mod.

The button runs a simple CircuitPython script to configure the behavior of the keypress.

3D models, BOM, code here:

https://github.com/dr-mod/bob

Big Orange Button in action pic.twitter.com/tXIW1ZMfGj

— Dmytro Panin (@dr2mod) July 7, 2022

Published on Sun 10th Jul 2022. Featured in KBD #86 (source).

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