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Iambic keyer with Raspberry Pico

There are many Iambic keyer implementations on Arduino, but not many with Raspberry Pico. This is a (incomplete) port of Steven Elliot's (K1EL) keyer (which first appeared in openqrp.org website).

Iambic Mode B is not implemented yet (mainly because I don't use it). Patches welcome.

Implementation notes

The toughest part for me was maintaining the timing with time_us_64(). Where we capture the free running timer matters. I haven't measured the resulting waveforms, but I think the output mostly matches the input WPM that is asked.

For now, changing WPM/Sidetone frequency/pins would need editing main.cpp and recompiling the code.

Output sidetone goes into the PWM output. A low value resistor and an electrolytic capacitor in series is recommended before connecting the negative pin of the capacitor to the speaker. i.e.:

 GPIO pin |- ...\/\/\/\/.....)|---- 🎧

License

The original code was licenses GPLv2.1 or above. Since we derive from that code, this code too has the same license. Please share your improvements and fixes.

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