After about three hours and two PCB rewirings, I now have to rewire again to fix my usb 🥀🥀. Anyways, disregarding that pain, got started on some CAD stuff today too.

This was my first ever experience with KiCAD, and honestly it taught me a lot about how PCBs work and are made. I’m taking my time intentionally in order to be able to replicate the process in the future, not just one-off a hardware project like this, and hopefully I can make my own hardware for other stuff before september.

Current progress:
PCB schematic almost complete
CAD for the macropad is almost complete

Action items:
Need to rewire the PCB so the USB is facing outwards
Need to import parts library into the CAD