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Re:Show HN: Threeboard – a full-size mechanical USB keyboard... by taylorconor on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @04:13PM (#29897989)
These kinds of things are distinctly different, assigning macros or keycodes to specific keys. The threeboard is not a macropad, it's a fully-functional keyboard that can type anything, it just requires specifying the keycode to type or programming in macros to type words/sentences.
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Re:Show HN: Threeboard – a full-size mechanical USB keyboard... by csdvrx on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @04:27PM (#29898203)
That's wrong. The 4 key OSU keyboard is a 4 key keyboard emitting keycodes. I know because I have one (!!)

Some of them even use QMK so you can assign anything you want.

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Re:Show HN: Threeboard – a full-size mechanical USB keyboard... by taylorconor on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @04:37PM (#29898348)
My point is that they're macro pads where you can assign keycodes or keycode combinations to specific keys. The threeboard is itself capable of determining which keycodes to send and is not limited by what it's been programmed to do. So it's fully-functional in the sense that you can use it to type anything, it'd just take a really long time and make you very unhappy!
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Re:Show HN: Threeboard – a full-size mechanical USB keyboard... by csdvrx on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @04:45PM (#29898475)
Fair enough!
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