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Follow Your Heart

Follow your heart and find the hidden 3 letter code:

ASCII representations:

Screen:

XPMMBIWZ
BPFPICPC
CRPMTDXX
RVUYJBTZ
FBTXGMWI
AWKISAIL
ZCFMIVPM

Info screen:

RABCC   RABCC
ZALBH   ZZKAH
ANUME > AMTLE
PIDON   PHCNN
CBBFL   CBBFL

Answer*

The instructions tell us
>! that we should trace the message "your heart" on the keyboard. The info screen suggests that each key press will use rot25 for the pressed letter and all the adjacent ones (rotating each letter backwards A->Z, B->A etc.). There is only one place where to start the message  
>! [![][1]][1]  
>! After that we continue finding the next letters in adjacent squares  
>! [![][2]][2]  
>! [![][3]][3]  
>! [![][4]][4]  
>! In the picture above, we have to choose carefully between the two possible R, because only one of those makes it possible to advance to an H next.  
>! [![][5]][5]  
>! Here we notice that OP has also hidden their own name in the puzzle. Again, we have to choose the E which allows us to advance the message.  
>! [![][6]][6]  
>! [![][7]][7]  
>! [![][8]][8]  
>! And we finish with the same square with which we started giving  
>! [![][9]][9]  
>! Inside the heart symbol, we find the hidden code: PSE

[1]: https://i.sstatic.net/pZm1a.jpg
  [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/CaInn.jpg
  [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/6keiV.jpg
  [4]: https://i.sstatic.net/2zkOP.jpg
  [5]: https://i.sstatic.net/iNIR9.jpg
  [6]: https://i.sstatic.net/MUcQE.jpg
  [7]: https://i.sstatic.net/bedlf.jpg
  [8]: https://i.sstatic.net/TShwz.jpg
  [9]: https://i.sstatic.net/v3oMm.jpg

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$\begingroup$ Correct! Well done :) $\endgroup$
– Avigrail
Commented Dec 28, 2020 at 17:33

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