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Macropad for osu!

Oplivion built and open-sourced a custom macropad with knobs and a slider.

KBD.news
Published January 2, 2022

A macropad / mediapad which supports various layouts.

Made specifically to accommodate osu! players who want more than 1u space between their keys.

The macropad features 4-8 key layouts, 2 rotary encoders, slider potentiometer and 8 addressable RGB lights.

STLs and PCB files (Eagle): https://github.com/ilp0/ultimate_osu_keypad

Published on Sun 2nd Jan 2022. Featured in KBD #59 (source).

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