Whereas a keyboard and mouse work properly for common computing duties, if you happen to actually need to get your button-mashing on, then you definately want a stick setup with buttons and a joystick. Sadly, not all of us have $250 or so sitting round to spend on such a tool, so we follow our keyboards, or maybe an affordable gamepad, and name it a day. The MixStick PCB 12key Compact USB Arcade Controller PCB, by Ryan Bates of Retro Constructed Video games, permits one to as an alternative construct a mash-up between a keyboard and a hundreds-of-dollars arcade setup.

The board has area for 10 keys on the left, and and 10 on the best, plus mounting factors for RST/auxiliary buttons, and LED lighting. These two boards might be cut up for customized ergonomic association and soldered collectively as wanted, and both sides contains a set of mounting factors for battle stick keyboard mounting.

Documentation on the construct is obtainable on GitHub, and the video under reveals how every part is ready up. It’s designed to work with the DaemonBite firmware by MickGyver, operating on an ATmega32U4 Professional Micro. In fact, if you happen to’re not into gaming, one might definitely see this/these PCBs repurposed as a customized HID for normal computing, or maybe it might even be arrange as a chording keyboard.