Devlog #2! On my MarPad v1

Only about an hour and a half today, turns out we had plans… nevertheless! I was able to do some fun work on my MarPad v1 and I’m quite proud of it.

Today my accomplishments were:

1. Making minor adjustments to the Casing
2. Learning to adjust movements precisely in KiCad
3. Designing and customizing my Casing (this was fun!)

What was the inspiration?

Well, as you can see, there is a clear color palette and theme behind my HackPad design. That is, of course, the Apollo 11 mission control desks! The Color Scheme is ripped straight out of the 60s, and I loved the “Flight Director” name-triangular prism, thus I added it to the design.

Enough nerding out over old NASA desks, I did learn some cool tricks on CAD today, which I am proud of. For example, I learnt how to change what gets selected when I do a box select. Or, another example, how to emboss text or designs. (Very nice!)

That’s it for today! I hope to continue swiftly and steadily, and am looking forward to more design ideas for this case.