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CHIP-8 keypad

A topic by Tobias V. Langhoff created Aug 25, 2020 Views: 442 Replies: 2
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I'm so stoked for Octojam, I put together a little keypad, inspired by the COSMAC VIP's keypad, to play this year's games with:

It's a BM-16A PCB and case, purchased from KPRepublic.  I had to solder in switches myself (I put in some Zealios Zilent switches I had lying around for a tactile feel). The keycaps are a DSA Mono-Color keyset for an ortholinear layout from Pimp My Keyboard (Signature Plastics); the DSA profile means the keycaps are all the same height, and the ortholinear set comes without sublegends on the numeric keys. 

I then programmed the keypad using the open source QMK firmware, and mapped the keys to the Octo layout (ie. 1234qwerasdfzxcv).

Time to play some CHIP-8 games!

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This looks amazing! Thanks for sharing. :)

Clean. Love the colors.