I made a mechanical gaming keypad

[postanthony3000]

https://github.com/Ayehavgunne/pypad

I made a replacement for my Razer Tartarus V2. It is a gaming focused Keypad with 21 buttons, a scroll wheel and an analog joystick.

I originally used a PyBoard but had to switch to a Teensy after finding some of the PyBoard's limitations. I also couldn't get MicroPython working well on the Teensy so I had to stick with Teensyduino

Still, I got it working and I wrote some monitoring software in Python that runs in Windows and sends new profiles to the Teensy when different game processes are found. I am working on the web interface now to make it easy to change out mappings for different games. Full details are on the github page.

[fpazos]

That's really nice. It has a lot of work, I like to see another choc lover.

You should be able to use it with QMK, but that's something you can try later.

[nevin]

very nice. great to see our type of programability on this type of gaming pad. the client running on the pc is a great idea/implementation!

[postanthony3000]

Thanks! It has been quite a fun project.

I did take a look at QMK but as of now it doesn't support a Joystick HID. Looks like it will soon though. There has been a PR in the works in recent months that will add Joystick/gamepad functionality.

The other thing is that I wanted to be able to remap the keys on the fly and using QMK would require me to reflash the board to swap mappings. I tend to fiddle with key settings as I am playing a game until I settle on something that works well so I wanted to be able to change keys immediately while playing.

I probably will use QMK at some point whenever I get around to building a full custom keyboard. No idea when I'll get around to that though.

[fpazos]

These are a couple of good reasons.

Enviado desde mi Redmi Note 7 mediante Tapatalk

[Lostdotfish]

I've been heading off down quite the rabbit hole with this one...

[Lostdotfish]

Further down the rabbit hole...





I'll probably move to my own post after I build this up a little more.  But, it's working.  QMK running on RP2040 stamp.  I have also rebuilt the thumb PCB dpad but need to build that up and sort out the firmware for it.

[Lostdotfish]

Just in case anyone is interested in my QMK take on this;



https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=122471.0

[MizterWizter]

Hi! I was wondering if your pcb design was available somewhere? I would like to try this out on my Tartarus v2 if possible.

[Blasterboy]

In your article, i see you have a schematic / Gerber for the Gerber_razer_tartarus_v2_mecha...  Looks like the original DPAD PCB schematic. Would you be willing to share that schematic? I would like to modify the DPAD PCB to use differatn switches.

Thanks so much!