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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 06:11:21 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I wonder what the most computing power anyone has put into a keyboard is?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 06:15:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Like, slab computers like the c64 don't count. I'm defining "keyboards" something like "devices intended as input devices for other bigger computers, which have over 26 buttons"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 06:17:30 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     It's probably one of these modern mechanical ones which are using arm cortex m0 chips instead of the usual atmels.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 06:19:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Anyway I was wondering because I was thinking about putting a whole raspi (not a pico) into a keyboard

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 06:21:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     A pi zero might work well. Plenty of pins, and it has usb gadget mode

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 07:36:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • DrYak

     @dryak oh yeah, that thing! I keep meaning to get/make one, and then forgetting

   • DrYak (dryak@mstdn.science)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 07:36:21 JST DrYak

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     @foone regarding Raspberry Pi working as keyboard and input device, there's USB4VC: a board that let you connect modern USB (and bluetooth) input devices (keyboard, mouse and gamepad) and then the Raspberry Pi emulates old protocols for vintage computers: e.g. PS/2, AT or XT keyboard, PS/2 or Serial mouse, and Gameport joystick.

     (With optional remaping, i.e.: USB gamepad input events are mapped to key presses. Though that specific combination fails the 26 buttons criteria you mentionned)

   • Tim 🎮 (timixretroplays@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 08:20:48 JST Tim 🎮

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     @foone excluding projects that use general-purpose stuff like raspberry pis, my serious guess at an answer to this question is one of Art Lebedev's OLED button keyboards

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 09:13:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • curtmack

     @curtmack ooh, that'd be fun

   • curtmack (curtmack@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 09:13:46 JST curtmack

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     @foone I've mentioned in the past that a keyboard with macros programmable in BASIC (via built-in character display) would be pretty great.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 01:43:33 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Kerry Benton

     @kerrybenton nice! Have you written up anything about that project?

   • Kerry Benton (kerrybenton@ioc.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 01:43:34 JST Kerry Benton

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     @foone I’m literally in the middle of exactly this project! Pi Zero is going into an older PS/2 Keytronic.

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 11:33:02 JST vxo

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     @foone what will be your keyboard's boot time