HacKeyboard, a mechanical keyboard built from scratch

Re:HacKeyboard, a mechanical keyboard built from scratch by escherize on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @02:08AM (#10586411)

Ever since I got to know and love the emacs macro feature (record a sequence of commands, and replay it at a keypress), I've wanted to have this same superpower at the hardware level. I'm making a keypad out of arcade buttons [1], an old box, and a teensy [2]. I excpect I'll have to write the record/playback code by myself (it's not too bad, there's an arduino / c-like language), but has anyone heard of such a thing?

edit - Great! Looks like this keyboard has a macro ability built into it, only it's called "keylogger". Now to find the source code...

[1] - http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/20pcs-lot-35mm-Arcad...

[2] - https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy.html

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Re:HacKeyboard, a mechanical keyboard built from scratch by masaleiro on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @10:48AM (#10588323)

Hi! Project author here. The keyboard has both the macro functions (from F1 to F12) and the keylogger. Since it's completely open source / open hardware you can disable the keylogger in the firmware if you don't like it. I personally don't use it. No one uses the keyboard except me and I'm not going to log my own stuff :) . Just put it there to show that it is possible to do it. Regarding the source code, it's available in my github: https://github.com/masaleiro/HacKeyboard

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Re:HacKeyboard, a mechanical keyboard built from scratch by gozo on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @03:20AM (#10586602)

This board is based on a PIC. The teensy is a AVR (and later ARM). You want to look here instead:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/firmware

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Re:HacKeyboard, a mechanical keyboard built from scratch by swah on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @07:34AM (#10587310)

That would be pretty cool if replayed keys blinked "in real time".

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