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#circuipython

Wrapped up my latest custom #keyboard today. It’s a single handed keeb designed exclusively for playing #ArcRaiders . Designed in TinkerCad and #3dprinted on my #Prusa mk4. Then hand painted with Panduro Hobby Acrylics and dusted with weathering powders. Running #kmk on a #seeed Xiao #rp2040. #circuipython #kmk

Front of the keyboard. It’s a metallic colour made to look weathered and rusty. It contains for rows, six columns and a small thumb cluster.

Inside of the keyboard. Uses flexible copper rods hand wired to the switches and to a very small microcontroller

https://youtube.com/shorts/nB9BykVDy0Y

#circuiPython #retro #ws2812 #arcade #gamedev #3dprint

Well, that was easier as expected. From idea to product in four days. Now I am able to control throttle, propeller, flaps, and the pitch trim of the virtual AT01 with my custom Raspberry Pi Pico-based USB joystick.

+1 on CircuitPython, USB HID dev

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Next: mount it in a nice cardboard case.

#aviationgeek #AquilaA211 #circuipython #usbhid #RaspberryPiPico

electronic components spread out on a table: two 20 pin socket strips, a Raspberry Pi Pico with header, 8 resistors 10k, 4 capacitors 100n, two slide potentiometers with black and blue knob resp., a rocker switch, a rocker lever, and a stripboard

circuit board assembly with the two socket strips as the frame for the Pico, inbetween are resistors, capacitors, and some wires mounted

all components, solder and wired together on a table

screenshot of X-Plane showing the "Frank Abelbeck Aquila Central Console" input device

All - in case you didn't see, @adafruit released #CircuiPython 8.1.0. This version fully supports the Fig Pi boards, as well as Mini SAM M4. Upgrading the firmware is as easy as booting into BOOT mode, and dragging the new firmware from https://circuitpython.org/board/bwshockley_figpi/ onto the drive that shows up. That's it!