Gigapad The Gigapad is a wireless macropad designed by Eric Pietrowicz .
KBD.news Published February 27, 2024
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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
Published on Tue 27th Feb 2024. Featured in KBD #157 (source ).
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