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Ultimute - The Ultimate Mute Button!
by jangrewe
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Ultimute - The Ultimate Mute Button is... well, the ultimate mute button.
After over a year in home office and countless video conferences, i got tired of always having to switch windows/tabs and then find the mute/unmute button of the respective platform, so i built this button that allows me to globally mute/unmute my microphone.
Is this a totally overengineered solution to a problem that could be fixed a lot easier, e.g. by using just a hotkey on my keyboard? Absolutely. Did i already mention that it has RGB LEDs?
It uses a SparkFun Pro Micro to send a hotkey via USB to the computer it is attached to, and shows the current mute/unmute status via four WS2812b (or similar) LEDs that illuminate the dome, which rests on four 6x6mm switches.
You can toggle between mute/unmute via a double-tap of the button, which will change the colour between red (unmuted) and green (muted). Keeping the button pressed while either muted or unmuted will switch the current status until the but
After over a year in home office and countless video conferences, i got tired of always having to switch windows/tabs and then find the mute/unmute button of the respective platform, so i built this button that allows me to globally mute/unmute my microphone.
Is this a totally overengineered solution to a problem that could be fixed a lot easier, e.g. by using just a hotkey on my keyboard? Absolutely. Did i already mention that it has RGB LEDs?
It uses a SparkFun Pro Micro to send a hotkey via USB to the computer it is attached to, and shows the current mute/unmute status via four WS2812b (or similar) LEDs that illuminate the dome, which rests on four 6x6mm switches.
You can toggle between mute/unmute via a double-tap of the button, which will change the colour between red (unmuted) and green (muted). Keeping the button pressed while either muted or unmuted will switch the current status until the but
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