A programmable desktop controller

Your hands.
Your rules.

A physical home for your shortcuts, music, and custom commands. Twenty-five keys to make your computer feel a little more like yours.

Get to know Pad25

Independent hardware.
Still taking shape.

Current Pad25 design render: a transparent enclosure with 25 illuminated frosted keys, a display, two rotary encoders, and two auxiliary buttons. — Current design render. The final design may change.

25 keys2 encodersRGB lightingOnboard displayUSB MIDI + HID

At home in your workflow

Switch the app.
Keep your flow.

Your editor, your music software, your everyday tools. Pad25 can react when you switch applications, so your controls can follow what you’re working on.

Make it app-aware.: Give the same physical keys different jobs as you move between applications. Keep the shortcuts you need connected to the work in front of you.
Go beyond shortcuts.: Execute operating-system commands from the pad. Put custom desktop actions and repetitive tasks within reach of a physical key.

A few places to start

For the things
you do your way.

Make a little noise.

Play notes over USB MIDI. Map controls in your music software. Give a musical idea somewhere to start, away from another on-screen control.

For music makers

Cut the repetition.

Editing, navigating, copying, undoing. Put the keyboard commands you reach for most on dedicated keys, then add the OS commands that fit your routine.

For everyday work

Follow a strange idea.

Write a MicroPython script. Connect a key press to a color, a graphic, or an action. Build a small tool for the way your brain works.

For the tinkerers

The physical part

A small object.
A lot to work with.

Keys, knobs, light, and a screen. Enough to give your software a physical side.

Under your fingers: A 5 × 5 key grid, two rotary encoders with push switches, and two auxiliary buttons.
In plain sight: Individually controlled RGB LEDs and an onboard display for text, graphics, and feedback.
Connected to your computer: USB MIDI for music software and USB keyboard HID for keyboard input and shortcuts.
Open to your ideas: MicroPython firmware with modules for keys, encoders, LEDs, display drawing, MIDI, and keyboard HID.

A note from the workbench

Still in the making.

Pad25 is an independent hardware and firmware project, currently in development. The render shows where the design is heading; the enclosure, layout, materials, and final specifications may evolve.

There’s no release date or price to announce yet. For now, this is a first look at a controller taking shape.

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Your hands.Your rules.

Switch the app.Keep your flow.

For the thingsyou do your way.