With hackers as well as makers building custom computing gadgets that don’t necessarily comply with traditional style paradigms, there’s been a growing demand for smaller as well as smaller keyboards. many of the cyberdecks we’ve seen over the last couple of years have utilized so-called 60% or even 40% keyboards, as well as there’s been a pattern towards repurposing BlackBerry keyboards for wearables as well as other pocket-sized gadgets. however what if you requirement something even smaller?
Enter this incredibly diminutive keyboard produced by [TEC.IST]. With 59 secrets crammed into an area scarcely larger than three us pennies, it may well be the smallest keyboard ever made. The PCB has been designed to install directly onto the back of a Raspberry Pi Pico, which is running some CircuitPython code to checked out the switch matrix as well as act as a common USB Human interface Device. The board style data in addition to the source code for the Pico have been released on the project’s Hackaday.io page, providing you whatever you requirement to spin up your own teeny small input device.
The Pi Pico’s castellated pads make attaching the PCB a snap.
Of course, you most likely won’t be breaking any type of speed records when banging out text on this thing. We understand from past Hackaday badges that an array of microswitches produce a functional, if somewhat unpleasant, technique of text entry.