RapidPad

began working on the screws, yay! just messing around, seeing what works. give me some suggestions if you have them!

SO CLOSE
four more screws
istg if anything goes wrong

I did things to the case
Fusion is very difficult but I’ll learn it one day
for now can anyone please tell me how to change the colour of the case

Went to CTC Bagotville for some summer training and procrastinated like a good IB student

Basically did CAD for like two hours, Fusion is so hard to learnnn
(Had a temporary heart attack too as Fusion showed a previous model and I thought it didn’t save)

Nevermind… stuck with Fusion (still hate it). But I have something that looks like a case at least…
Going to continue working on it. Still have a top to make
:, )

So overhauled the PCB again… managed to reduce the number of vias and even shrunk the PCB! Also tried making a case in Fusion… hated it. Heard Onshape is pretty good, going to go try that out.

Completely overhauled the PCB, and added some silkscreen :> (632 RCACS 4ever)
I think I have too many vias, but can’t see another way around it… oh well, I’ll pay the price for it eventually (so please leave feedback…)
Time to make a case :D

First time doing hardware, first time posting a devlog, kinda nervous ~

So what’s RapidPad? Just my own HackPad I plan to torture with (this means trying out a bunch of stuff on it). It’ll have nine keys, a rotary encoder, and an OLED screen (subject to change, of course).

Anyways:

• Created a schematic. This took ages to modify: initially wanted 16 keys, but not enough connections, and I wanted to add a bunch of other stuff. In the end, I settled on nine keys, a rotary encoder and the OLED panel. Then had to learn matrix-wiring: Joe Scotto’s tutorial was pretty good
• Created a PCB. I attached a photo to show I 100% definitely knew what I was doing :> Jokes aside, I was not sure what I was doing. I’m going to ask in #hackpad, but if you have feedback, PLEASE TELL ME

Anyways, it’s 0254. I’m going to sleep goodbye