Salim Benbouziyane’s Ocreeb Is an Spectacular Customized Macropad with a Intelligent Hidden Function

Designer Salim Benbouziyane has put collectively a classy macro keypad primarily based on the Adafruit Kee Boar KB2040 and a {custom} PCB, designed to supply not solely a 3×4 matrix of mechanical keys however two rotary encoders — and custom-built proper all the way down to the keycaps.

“Ocreeb is a 12-key macro keypad with two rotary encoders, {custom} keycaps and under-glow RGB,” Benbouziyane explains of his creation. “The board is working KMK firmware on the Adafruit KB2040.”

Macropads, which offer programmable keys to make use of as both {custom} inputs or to set off a pre-defined macro, are a standard mission — however the Ocreeb goes slightly additional than most. Whereas the controller, an Adafruit Kee Boar KB2040 with Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller, is off-the-shelf, it is linked to a {custom} PCB, which is housed in a 3D-printed chassis — full with a clear PETG layer to permit the RGB LED under-glow to shine by means of.

Even the keycaps are {custom}, with dye-sublimation legends, and tailor-made particularly for the person — on this case Benbouziyane’s brother. “He is a front-end developer and he does music in his spare time, so I added an additional bonus function for him to find and play with: In the event you faucet quickly the lock key 4 instances you enter a secret layer,” Benbouziyane provides, “the place this turns into a MIDI enter system.”

Benbouziyane has chosen to make the Ocreeb open supply, publishing the firmware supply, PCB design information, and STL information for 3D printing on GitHub beneath the reciprocal GNU Normal Public License 3. Directions on assembling the macropad may be discovered on the mission’s web page.