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Gigapad

The Gigapad is a wireless macropad designed by Eric Pietrowicz.

KBD.news
Published February 27, 2024

Eric Pietrowicz aka ubiqueIoT/zciwor shared a wireless macropad called Gigapad, along with a detailed write-up. The name does not refer to the size but Bluetooth and its frequency in the Gigahertz range.

My latest project: Gigapad. A custom wireless macropad running ZMK. I put together a full write-up of the build with all of the design files and ZMK setup instructions – zciwor.

Specs

• 3 keys (MX, soldered)
• Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840 controller
• EC11 rotary encoder

Resources

• Gigapad on GitHub.
• Eric's write-up

Published on Tue 27th Feb 2024. Featured in KBD #157 (source).

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