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launch programmes and much more! I've left an easter egg in profile 5 :).
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I built this macro keyboard because I was spending way too much time with
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- repetitive keystrokes, it was too difficult and even annoying to not have media
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- control keys on my keyboard, the ones in the market were way too expensive
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+ repetitive keystrokes, I also needed a quick way to trigger media functions without
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+ needing to switch windows. The ones in the market were way too expensive
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and finally, after looking up many designs of people who've built their own
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- macro keyboards and finding only a few with a display, but none of them met my
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- criteria, and I knew I had to build my own.
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+ macro keyboards and finding only a few with a display, none of them could meet my
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+ criteria, thus I had to build my own.
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I decided to implement an OLED display that's compact and instead of a diode-resistor
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configuration I've decided to go with a shift register instead, simply because
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the complexity of the PCB is brought way down with fewer components to fail
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and its a lot easier to replace a socketed dip-16 IC than it is to desolder
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- a diode and the number of pins I save using a shift register allows for future
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+ a diode and the number of GPIO pins I save using a shift register allows for future
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expansion.
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Apart from the code and required libraries, the PCB gerber files, 3D CAD files
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