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+# TYPICO 
+The RP2040 C library to emulate the keyboard of an Olympia Carrera German typewriter. 
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+Very hacky code btw
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+Initialize the submodule pico-sdk, cd into it and do a git submodule update --init there as well. 
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+After that it's just nix magic and the usual cmake hustle.