thejevans / 2percentmilk_catchphrases

Built for 2% Milk keyboard (hotswap dual LED version). Types a random stored phrase and lights up a random color.

This is an Arduino sketch file, meant to be built and loaded from the Arduino IDE.

As of writing, the 2percentmilk board uses a 5V 16MHz pro micro clone with a bootloader preinstalled.

To get the Arduino IDE set up to load this sketch to the pro micro:

• go to Tools > Manage Libraries... and make sure the Adafruit_Neopixel and Keyboard libraries are installed.
• go to Tools > Board and select Arudino Leonardo (this board has the same bootloader and microcontroller)
• go to Tools > Port and make sure the port is correctly set (should say the board name)
• open the sketch from the repository and build and load the sketch

Notes / shortcomings:

• This was a quick build, so there are things that are likely not done the best way.
• One of those things is that I used delay() when I should have used a debounce library like FTDebouncer
• I could have also precompiled and uploaded a test .hex file, so that the only install dependency would be avrdude instead of the Arduino IDE, but the Arduino IDE would still be required to change the included phrases.
• Because RAM is so limited on these chips, the phrases are stored in the program memory as an array of const char arrays
• This could probably also be done in QMK, but I wasn't sure how much room I would have to add the phrases to program memory with the QMK libraries, so I didn't try
• If anyone wants to contribute, please do!