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@Skyler
I am building a macropad called "Veloxpad". It will have 8 keys, a rotary encoder, and an OLED display. The purpose of this macropad is to improve my speed and efficiency when designing. But due to the limited number of pins available on the XIAO, I decided to use only the rotary function of the rotary encoder.
2h 38m 54s logged
Well uh, last time i thought I had finished my PCB, but I made some small changes and have finished my PCB case. It took me a lot of time to find and apply the 3d models of components from the PCB, but here it is. I made my case in FreeCAD because I am pretty familiar with the software. Sadly my laptop decided to give up twice during the progress and I had to reset it. But luckily I didn’t lost much. The only weird thing is that I can’t find the mounting hole that is visible in the PCB-editor in the schematic. I guess I’ll look into it later.
2h 17m 26s logged
I finished my PCB design and spent a lot of time working on the wiring, which was quite challenging. (Had to watch several tutorials and asked some stuff in slack.) I decided not to use all the features of the rotary encoder because the XIAO does not have enough available pins. So, I chose to only use the rotation function of the encoder. I also added several LEDs to the design.
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I just made a start today and am pretty proud of my small start. Drawing pcb’s is quite fun, but setting up hackatime and downloading KiCad did took a lot of time. I almost gave up because my laptop started doing strange and didn’t had enough storage to download the installer for KiCad T_T. But after lots of effort I did manage to set everything up (hopefully correct)…
After setting up I drew some stuff in the sketch editor and imported it in the PCB editor. I ran into some problems but I have trust that I’ll be able to fix it next time. Also I added 4 switches to my sketch but I can’t find them in the pcb editor… This is though my first time making a pcb. So I think it is probably normal. :)
