It works!

(i)Pad Devlog #7

I did it! I did a thing!

Behold, my creation.

Anyway, yeah, this is it. In all its glory. It took quite a lot of time to write the firmware but I finally got one I’m happy with.

It has 4 layers:

• Base: Playback things, also open Spotify
• Layer 1: A bunch of function keys
• Layer 2: Opening task manager and other stuff that may be useful
• Layer 3: Resizing windows and stuff.

The OLED display

It just displays the current layer. Also a small box that bounces around.

The LEDs

The first LED indicates the layer. The rest of them play a wave animation every time a key is pressed.

CAD designing

The knob was quite annoying to print because of tolerances and stuff but after 4 attempts it works now. Fusion360 was really laggy while designing the knob for some reason.

I also finally figured out why the plate wasn’t working, I fixed that now. Took me ages.

Soldering

Turns out soldering wasn’t that difficult. I made plenty of mistakes but it worked in the end.