The Stream Deck is great for running macros on your Mac, but there are ways to do it significantly cheaper. Sometimes, all it takes is a spare keyboard or a secondary numpad. In the pursuit of ...

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The duckyPad Pro is an ESP32-S3-based open-source macropad with 20 mechanical keys, rotary encoders, and powered by the duckyScript engine, for macro scripting and automation beyond QMK/VIA. This ...

Last time, I showed you how to throw together a few modules and make a working macropad that could act like a keyboard or a mouse. My prototype was very simple, so there wasn’t much to debug. But what ...

One of the biggest electronics and appliance retailers in North America for years was Circuit City, a significant rival to contemporary competitors like Best Buy. However, the company has fallen from ...

When Limor “Ladyada” Fried founded Adafruit a decade ago, she was just a bored college student. While creating small electronics during what she described as “deep procrastination” on her MIT thesis, ...

Python is the first programming language to climb to an 18% rating since Java, which rated 18% nearly eight years ago. Python has scored its highest rating ever, 18.04%, in Tiobe’s index of ...

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While trying to run macropad_simpletest_display.py from adafruit-circuitpython-bundle-9.x-mpy-20240118, i get the following traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "code.py", line 13, in ...