My awesome macropad!
Hardware- 1 Devlogs
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A macropad that will control volume and screen brightness with rotary encoders also it will have a screen and a 3x3 keyboard with 2 more keys on the side, all the keys WILL HAVE RGB
DEVLOG 1 (July 7th)
Helloo everyone, after procrastinating for a long long time I started designing my hackpad. Before starting the timelapse, with the help of Claude I made a “Hackpad Layout Designer” where I could move, add, and remove components, and I ended up with the design in the first picture (if anybody wants the “designer” I will leave it on the project’s GitHub repo under tools/layout-designer/).
I also made a GitHub repo for the project.
After that I spoke with ChatGPT and we came up with a good wiring diagram. Then I just had to make it a thing in KiCad. I’ve barely used KiCad before and the start was a bit confusing, but after learning the basics I actually had fun placing components and wiring.
I finished the schematic and also added footprints for each component, and now it is 3:45 AM.
I will be gone for 2 days, I think, but after that I hope to get the pcb design done and maybe start working on the case. (I might be a little bit too optimistic)
