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I made a thing to help you make a thing out of a keypad


ctronics projects in my spare time, and I tend to try to make reusable parts to save myself effort in the future. Because I have to order ingredients in certain quantities, I often wind up with more than I need for my project.

2024-02-27I do a lot of electronics projects in my spare time, and I tend to try to make reusable parts to save myself effort in the future. In the tiny flash of the embedded microcontroller, I’ve packed a setup wizard that will walk you through the process of setting up the keypad of your choice. After that process is done, it just produces key characters over serial or I2C — so it can interface with basically any embedded platform.

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