Arcade Buttons Media Keyboard

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This is my Custom Media Keyboard that I designed for use with the MediaMonkey music player application. It's incredibly useful for playing, skipping, scanning and rating music tracks quickly. The play, skip and scan buttons are programmed in the Arduino sketch to send the media commands MEDIA_REWIND, MEDIA_PREVIOUS, MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE, MEDIA_NEXT and MEDIA_FAST_FORWARD which most applications should recognize and respond to easily. The bottom row of buttons labeled 1 through 5 are programmed in the Arduino sketch to send the key combinations KEY_LEFT_SHIFT+KEY_LEFT_ALT+n where n is the button number. I use this to set the track rating from 1 to 5 stars in MediaMonkey, which was customized in MediaMonkey's preferences under hotkeys. I've included a Windows 10 Registry export that clears existing hotkeys and assigns the correct keys for the included Arduino sketch. Here are the parts you'll need: 1 x Arduino Leonardo Pro Micro 10 x 24mm Arcade Buttons 4 x Countersunk Machine Screws M2.5 x 6mm