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MacroPact

The MacroPact is a rPico/KMK macropad with IPS display by kbjunky.

KBD.news
Published July 4, 2021

Some time ago my friend approached me with an idea of building a macropad for his Photoshop workflow. Key feature was to have a screen where he would be able to see what shortcut/macro is currently assigned to what key.

Gallery: https://imgur.com/a/e2YaCay

Source files pending. UPDATE 2021/07/31: MacroPact source files and build log released.

Published on Sun 4th Jul 2021. Featured in KBD #33 (source).

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