Cyberdeck Jr

devlog 6 - 6/26/2026

alright y’all, the hardware and design grind is officially FINISHED.

i spent around 5 total hours over the last two days completely speedrunning the hardware learning curve. honestly, if you showed me this project to me 4 days ago, id prob go ‘woah, thats a cool project’ and not ‘I CAN DO THAT?!’, but yeah, i did, my fault i didnt devlog yesterday, i forgot to record me working on the case and just chose not to devlog (sry)

next up is exporting the step/stl files to send over to the hack club printing legion grant to get this case physically printed! we are officially moving out of the design phase. thanks for tuning into the journey so far! (i think this might be the end of this project for physical stuff, prob doin the firmware next).

devlog 5 - 6/24/2026

ik i havent put out a devlong in a little bit, but uh i basically revampe my entire pcb and changed my schematic a little cuz i wanted the LED lights under my switches and wiring it all up was quite frustrating because i’ve only been at hardware for 2 days so the learning curve for kicad is there, but i dont even want to talk abt 3D design for the case in this devlog so i will post more abt that journey, welp, thats all for today’s devlog!

Devlog 4 - 6/23/2026

Finished my custom pcb and made a few changes from yesterday:

• Got rid of the rotary encoder
• Realized i got the wrong diodes (because they js refused to connect)
• Got the right diodes and rewired the entire pcb and it look pretty neat now

I think im starting to get the hang of this kicad stuff, hopefully it goes just as smooth on the fusion360 part of this project, i also want to thank Xeno3ra for helping me on my schematic and pcb (tysm gng :3)

And thats all i got for now.

devlog 3 - 6/22/2026

alrighty, i think ive got a hang of what im doing in kicad and will start making my pcb soon, till, then take a look at my schematic (neat isnt it 😭 ), jokes aside, today’s been a very learning full day, want to give a quick mention to the mysterious and amazing 13 Y/O CEO of Xeno Solutions for helping me with the schematic and taking a look at my 3d design.

devlog 2 - 6/22/2026

tried making the case from the tutorial for the hackpad, i have ZERO experience in kicad or fusion360 so uh i ran into MULTIPLE places where i was pretty confused, i will try finishing the case sometime soon.

ps: can someone please comment on what im doing wrong 😭 its stuck like that and idk how to move it around

devlog 1 - 6/22/2026

alrighty, so all i did last night was follow the tutorial and get the basic form of my hackpad done, today, i’ll have to familiarize myself with fusion360 to get the 3d modeling and add the extra features to my hackpad!