casper_lepouttre - Stardance

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@casper_lepouttre on My awesome macropad! · 4 days ago

I built a macropad that has 2 built in joysticks I found in an old drone controller and I used them to make a flight sim setup that you can connect to your chromebook and then you can play geofs way more realisticaly at school because it's also very smal (10x10x10 cm).
It has a lot of features like the 2 warning lights, a trim button (for non plane lovers it's like you have the way your flying if you let go with trim you change it so it automatically pulls to one side, kinda like stickdrift but programmed).
it also has dedicated buttons for landing gear, airbrake, flaps and wheelbrakes.
I made the pcb in kicad, the case in tinkercad and the code in vscode (didn't track properly and I don't know why).
I plan on making this one when I get the materials shipped and then if I am happy with it I am going to make a couple more for my friends so we can do some formation flying at school.

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@casper_lepouttre on My awesome macropad! · 4 days ago

36m 3s logged

I finished the entire pcb and I built the case (took about 1.5 hours total and then I started coding but vscode again didn’t properly track because I spent about 4 hours perfecting it (I have a pretty complicated piece of code that turns the joystick motion into mouse movement and also made it work on chromebook)

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@casper_lepouttre on My awesome macropad! · 4 days ago

36m 56s logged

I built the entire sketch pcb but for some reason hackatime isn’t registering it (spent like 3 hours on this I kid you not) For some reason it’s also to much to ask for just simply importing files (it just didn’t want to work at all, had to reinstall 3 times before it worked) The plan is to put 2 joysticks (general joysticks like ps4 or drone controller) on the pcb and then make it work with geofs.