My awesome macropad!
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A flight stick based on 2 joysticks found in most drone controllers
Hi! designing this for a 1 layer PCB is awesome, but you are going to make a few changes.
Right now I can't check the schematic because it is zoomed way to far out.
You should have a copy of your main.py in the production folder.
If you are using a 1 layer PCB, your traces overlap at some places, and you will not be able to fix it with vias. You will need to modify your PCB to stop overlaps.
Finally you will need to fund the joysticks yourself, as they are not included in the hackpad kit shipped by hack club.
Good work on this macropad, but you still need to make a few changes :
1) Your PCB is really messy, and your using a very confusing footprint for the XIAO RP2040 - could you use the one that the guide uses ?
2) Please clean up your PCB - right now this is quite a mess, and i would recommend you turn on 45 degree angles only ! You have to use the second Layer (the backside) to route - that makes things hella easier !
3) Your schematic is hella zoomed out, i cant see anything ! pls take a better screenshot
4) You need an actual CASE not a component layout ! Right now its just a map of where your components will go ! If you do have a case pls add pics of it to the README, there are none right now !
5) please add your final (compiled if u use qmk) firmware file to the production folder !
really cool project! currently you are using parts that are not included in the hackpad kits. if you would like to fund these out of pocket, feel free to resubmit, otherwise you should submit this outside of the hackpad mission!
This needs changes before we can consider it shipped. Review the Shipwright feedback, make updates, then ship again.
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Hey this is a really cool project!, But your readme looks really bare, please add some stuff to it like screenshots, setup instructions, project info and resubmit!
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I finished the entire pcb and I built the case (took about 1.5 hours total and then I started coding but vscode again didn’t properly track because I spent about 4 hours perfecting it (I have a pretty complicated piece of code that turns the joystick motion into mouse movement and also made it work on chromebook)
I built the entire sketch pcb but for some reason hackatime isn’t registering it (spent like 3 hours on this I kid you not) For some reason it’s also to much to ask for just simply importing files (it just didn’t want to work at all, had to reinstall 3 times before it worked) The plan is to put 2 joysticks (general joysticks like ps4 or drone controller) on the pcb and then make it work with geofs.
