Visual Studio Debugging Keyboard

Visual Studio Debugging Keyboard

This is a Keyboard for debugging control in Visual Studio.

It features buttons for build-run, stop, rebuild, step over, build, step into and step out of.

It is designed around an adafruit pro trinket. Either 5V or 3V Versions will work. Adarfuit provides a library to easily emulate keypresses using their HID driver. There is some basic code included, but you can customize or completely change it.

This keyboard uses B3F-4055 style switches, you can just press them into the base plate and solder wires to them.

The base plate holds the pro trinket in place using the 3 holes in the PCB. It also provides some space to run wires from the buttons to the microcontroller.

You can either multiplex the buttons, or connect them directly, since the pro trinket has enough pins to do so. The included code is for directly connected buttons.

For ease of printing the icons for the buttons are separate, you can glue them on afterwards. This also allows for easy multi material (and color) use without swapping filaments during printing.

In order to be able to flash new software onto the microcontroller, the stop and rebuild buttons as well as the base plate have a hole in them to reach the reset button on the microcontroller. For that, you can use a piece of 1.75mm filament.

You can find some sample code on https://pastebin.com/BPpqpusG.
To take a look at the finished product (a previous version) click here: https://imgur.com/gallery/1Nw2ftL