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Pee-two
Pee-two is a 2-key macropad with optional rotary encoder. Source files shared by u/pabile.
Published May 23, 2022
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Pabile Mariano shared the files of his 2-key macropad, the pee-two or Pabile 2.
No, not Pi-based – there's a Pro Micro under the hood.
The Pabile 2-key macro pad is an exploratory pad where I am experimenting on an unorthodox way of mounting Pro Micro on a PCB – Pabile.
As seen in the image below, only 12 pins of the Pro Micro are soldered. This gave room to mount hotswap sockets on the PCB.
- GitHub repo: https://github.com/pabile/pee-two
- Thingiverse page with STLs
Pabile's blog posts on the topic: here and here.
Published on Mon 23rd May 2022. Featured in KBD #79 (source).
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