6/26: first hackpad devlog
Hello to all my fans (total number: 0)! I’ve been working on this project for about a week now, but will probably restart or do some severe editing. Now that I’ve looked at a few examples of what I want to do, I have made a plan. I will either create a hackpad that displays the weather, or one that connects to my spotify and displays the song I am playing along with a progress bar correlating to the length of the song (I like the second idea better). With my switches, I want to be able to increase or decrease volume and skip songs, so I would need four switches. I could also implement a rotary encoder to move within the song, although this would only work for premium. I might give the rotary encoder a different job…maybe changing the RGB colors of the keyboard backlighting or adding an animation or scrolling through long titles. I’ll have to see. I found an API called SpotAPI that I might look into because it says I can use Spotify Free, I just have to see if it’s legal. So far, I’ve created the schematic and moved on to the PCB, although I want to redesign my schematic to add in matrix wiring (just to try and make it cleaner, although I may not need it). Anywayssss, that’s all from me, your favorite engineer that has zero clue what she’s doing!