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This 4-key chording keyboard can type anything
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This 4-key chording keyboard can type anything

So how this works is that you need to type two chords in order to get one output, everything is hand wired to a pi pico (you can actually see the pico sticking out of the top 😆

This is coded with 81 different keys, but more keys exist because I focused on 2 button chords only, even so there are 19 macros in addition to all the standard keys.

I haven't gotten good at typing on it even though I made the darn thing, but I imagine it could be possible to type reasonably fast with enough practice. It's easy to fall out of synch with the constant switching layers, but it's eay to fix your mistake. Though I made this keyboard not for speed, but for portability, as I plan on embedding this keyboard layout in a smartwatch. I am literally insane.

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