Bento Mechanical Keyboard Macropad

(4/12/23) Moved project to Printables. Link can be found in the readme file or under the same username. Happy printing!

A little handwired macropad that you can take anywhere! Includes a rotary encoder slot perfect for volume control, page scrolling, and more.

Note: EC11 rotary encoder is free floating therefore you may want to glue your encoder in or print a support for the bottom of the encoder if you plan to use its push-down switch feature. Built on QMK Firmware using BDN9 Macropad files as a base.

You can find more information about QMK [here.](https://beta.docs.qmk.fm/tutorial/newbs)


**[Handwiring]**

Each switch must be connected to a different pin on the controller. I will be referring to a Pro Micro for this project. Please see the [Pro Micro pinout.](https://golem.hu/pic/pro_micro_pinout.jpg) D7 will correspond to Pin 6 on the Pro Micro, B1 to Pin 15, and so on and so forth.

Each Cherry MX-style switch has [two metal pins](https://cdn.sparkfun.com//assets