I made the Cheapest Macro Keyboard

[@AndrewHelgeCox]

If you fill the box with free dirt from the park, the pad will have a pleasing quality feel from the additional mass. Remember to bake the dirt in your oven on a low heat for an hour to drive off any moisture before cooling and adding to the box.

[@TheUnofficialMaker]

lol

[@NerdCaveYT]

Not sure what will people think if a random foreigner is collecting sand in the park, but this box is sturdy so pressing the keypad really don't feel that awful.

[@nkdlive]

hi can you please make a tutorial on how to make any keyboard(numpad/full size) a macropad/ macros using pi wireless.

[@NerdCaveYT]

you mean the Pico W

[@nkdlive]

@@NerdCaveYT yes the wireless verson. Pico W

[@codingwithadhrit6239]

Can we do this without the breadboard and instead use a bunch of jumper wires

[@NerdCaveYT]

you can if you want to solder the cables directly to the pico

[@codingwithadhrit6239]

And how will the schematics look in that case

[@kupucreativemedia]

Thanks for sharing this! I use a wireless cheap numpad for macros. I use lua codes for macros mapping and it works pretty well. I recently uploaded a detail guide how to code in lua and made a template so that non-coding people can map their any keyboard for any software. The only problem is I used Lua Macros which is a exe file amd that code only can be read by lua macros software. So mac users cant use it. Do you have any idea how can I make that same lua code accessible for mac user? Hammerspoon can read lua from mac, but the lua code structure is bit different in lua macros. Any help?

[@NerdCaveYT]

I can have a look, I have similar issues with the macrokeyboard on mac as it does not work as an HID device, I have not used a MAC OS for more then 1 hour I would say, so I might be the wrong person to give advice on it but will see what I can find

[@SamFigueroa]

Oh nice, I already have an old keyboard and some Pi Picos laying around. I'm going to give this a try.

[@NerdCaveYT]

Sounds great!, for that I have made another video since using old keys you will probably not be using the matrix layout for keys unless you want to use more then 15 keys

[@bdntech6972]

hope you're doing well, interesting especially for beginners (as me), I run your code as is I just adapted the pins, but I keep geting indefinetly ' Rotary 1 - Button pressed Rotary 2 - Button pressed' (even if no encoder is conneted to the pico), any suggestions are apreciated.

[@NerdCaveYT]

I am wondering if the way it is connected it triggers on high instead of low in the code can you check rotary encoder button and just instead of .value() == 1 to .value() == 0

[@SurvivingWithFanty]

Are you also gonna make some projects with a raspberry pi 4 or 5?

[@NerdCaveYT]

I am planning to do just simple tutorials with electronics using the RPi5 and later on projects

[@TheUnofficialMaker]

fabulous

[@NerdCaveYT]

Considering doing the expensive version, found these Pokémon keycaps looks really great but $25 dollar a key not really sure is it worth it, will have to reduce the number of keys then

[@armand9910]

Awesome!

[@NerdCaveYT]

Dit sal perfek pas met jou rekenaar, net die beste XD

[@armand9910]

@@NerdCaveYT awe 😆

[@theadventurousprogrammer6449]

Now for the most expensive one you can make! Lol

[@NerdCaveYT]

If I was Mr. Beast I could, I saw some custom made key caps go for around $100 one. I think to end this whole series will just make a fully detailed course explaining the code and how to make PCB and then it was 4 videos related to macro keyboards

[@sanicspeed1672]

​@@NerdCaveYTor maybe an in between one or something reasonable instead of the squishy pad