Raspberry Pi Pico Space Mouse for OnShape CAD Design #DigiKey #RaspberryPiPico #CAD @Raspberry_Pi @DigiKey
Travis Foss at Digi-Key realizes his wish of having a SPace Mouse for CAD work:
For as long as I have worked in CAD programs, I’ve always thought it would be nice to have a space mouse to control certain aspects of the software. If you aren’t familiar, a space mouse is a specialty mouse used to rotate or control a 3D object in a CAD Program. While looking into some of the DIY space mouse builds out there, I noticed that a lot of them are just using Adafruit’s HID library to control some of the CAD commands, and it got me thinking of a project. Could I build a CAD Keypad?
The project uses a Pimoroni’s Pico RGB keypad with a Raspberry Pi Pico for the microcontroller. Travis used CircuitPython to program the project. CircuitPython makes it easy to create USB HID devices like keyboards and mice.
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