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Hidden USB hub turns ordinary keyboard into Doom console

How to make a keyboard that runs Doom when you press a special key

Mark Frauenfelder
Sep 20, 2024
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DOOM Keeb/John Park/Adafruit
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The Adafruit KB2040 – RP2040 Kee Boar Driver is a development board designed specifically for custom mechanical keyboard projects ("keeb" builds). It uses a Raspberry Pi microcontroller chip and can be programmed with CircuitPython, MicroPython, or C/C++. It's only $8.95.

Our friend John Park used one to create a keyboard that runs Doom when you press a special key. Watch the video here.

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