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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 17:06:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   The more security protections you have to bypass, the better the keyboard, right?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 20:46:42 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I was hoping my keyboard project would be solderless and simple, but it turns out my esp32 thing can't do keyboards, so I need to either breadboard it so it can talk to another MCU that can or just switch to a completely new MCU that has both non-BLE wireless and can be USB

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 20:48:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     maybe a pico W?
     or another ESP-based board.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 20:49:28 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     ESP32 I mean. I don't think they yet sell MCUs that are based on tapping into the human brain's natural psychic powers

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 20:53:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Je ne suis pas goth

     @jenesuispasgoth the ESP32 dev board I have (Sparkfun ESP32 Thing) only does USB through a serial chip, so it apparently can only appear as a serial device.

   • Je ne suis pas goth (jenesuispasgoth@pouet.chapril.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 20:53:09 JST Je ne suis pas goth

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     @foone sorry if it's a dumb question, but why can't it handle a keyboard? Not enough pins?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 21:19:35 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     to be clear what I'm trying to do is have a microcontroller plug into a computer as a USB keyboard, but it's also listening for some kind of wifi or (non-ble) bluetooth commands which tell it what button to push

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 21:20:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I was hoping to build this without needing to do anything other than program an existing MCU. Sadly it doesn't look like my current MCUs can do this

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 21:51:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     wait I found some old *redacted* bluetooth MCUs that are based on an 8-bit AVR, so it looks like they'll do USB HID.
     They only do Bluetooth BLE, but that's fine, since I have two. I can use one to talk to the other

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 22:17:00 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     except they don't work because they're running an ancient firmware and the firmware updater is broken. GREAT

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 23:23:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I got one of them to update. Don't ask how.
     It didn't fully update to the latest version, but it's at least late enough to work, somewhat?

     I gave up and ordered a pico w

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 09:41:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Trouble

     @trouble I've already got some pico-based keyboard code, but thanks!

     What's your use case for this VNC-keyboard?

   • Trouble (trouble@masto.ai)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 09:41:45 JST Trouble

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     @foone Pico W acting as a keyboard: https://learn.adafruit.com/diy-pico-mechanical-keyboard-with-fritzing-circuitpython/overview . Adding a WiFi page should be trivial, but performance will be lackluster given prior experience (have not tried pico 2w yet). I want to simulate a keyboard and mouse but send keystrokes via the VNC protocol.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 09:42:30 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • gkrnours

     @gkrnours nope. too many mark 1 eyeballs near the device.

     I could always just make it infrared, I guess

   • gkrnours (gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 09:42:31 JST gkrnours

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     @foone have you considered laser communication?