ISO Pad
This Guide will help you build your ISO macropad kit.
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0 - What you need
- Solder Iron
- Solder wire
- Soldering skills
- A computer in order to flash the firmware (MacOS, Windows, Linux)
1 - Screw the standoffs in the case
Use the flat head hex scres to mount the standoffs in the case
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2 - Solder the headers on the PCB
Check the right side of the PCB before solder!
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3 - Solder the microcontroller
Make sure of which microcontroller you are using, this tutorial shows a Promicro32u4 and Helios RP2040, follow the right part!
3.1 ProMicro ATMel32u4
Position the microcontroller facing up (with the chip showing up), solder the needed pins.
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3.2 Helios RP2040
Position the microcontroller facing up (with the chip showing up), check the photo for the pin position as the Helios has an extra row of pins.
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4 - Flash the firmware on your microcontroller
Like step 3, this one too has 2 different paths depending on the microcontroller you have.
4.1 - ATMel32u4
Flash your firmware with QMK blablablabla... link firmware
4.2 - RP2040
Connect the RP2040 to your computer, it should show up as a RaspberryPi memory drive.
Copy ZanniKB's ARM Firmware available from HERE in the root memory off the RP2040.
Your microcontroller will automatically reboot after the file has finished transferring.
5 - Configure your macropad
Using VIA you can now set custom macros or keys to your macropad.