Homebrew keyboard maker Joe Scotto has unveiled a brand new, ultra-compact design for a macro advert constructed with video streaming in thoughts: the eight-key, two-knob 3D-printed ScottoDeck.
“The ScottoDeck is an eight-key macro pad with two EC11 encoders designed for reside streaming,” Scotto explains of his newest design. “It makes use of Drop Holy Panda [mechanical keyboard switches] and was designed and constructed reside on YouTube. I additionally printed it utterly stable and added weights so it would not transfer round simply. There is not actually a lot to say about it apart from it really works and I am pleased with it.”
The format of the U-shaped macro pad is easy: two rows of 4 switches, with 3D-printed flat-topped keycaps mounted atop, take up the majority of the machine, whereas two 3D-printed knobs on prime of the rotary encoders present twistable inputs for something from quantity mixing to video fading — whereas sticking up from the highest like rabbit ears.
This newest design marks Scotto’s second launch of 2024, after unveiling the ScottoKatana earlier this month — an eye catching fully-3D-printed cut up format keyboard through which the curvature of the important thing columns on either side is backwards in comparison with extra conventional layouts. Whereas designed to take up a minimal of area whereas nonetheless together with a full-size spacebar, although, the ScottoKatana is significantly bulkier than the ScottoDeck — which, to be truthful, could be difficult to make use of as a tool’s primary enter technique owing to having solely eight keys.
As with the ScottoKatana, the ScottoDeck consists of no PCB; as a substitute the switches are mounted immediately into the 3D-printed housing and wired by hand to a Raspberry Pi RP2040-based microcontroller board designed to imitate the Arduino Micro format. The microcontroller, which gives a USB Kind-C connector for energy and information, runs a QMK-based firmware with Vial configuration help.
Extra data on the construct is out there on Scotto’s web site, whereas the design information have been revealed to GitHub below the Artistic Commons Attribution-NoCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license.