StarDeck - building a cool macropad with ZERO prior hardware experience

So, not sure if you can tell by my projects, but I work mainly in software. This project has already been driving me nuts, and claude has been… a bit less than useful so I’ve decided to just firm it and figure it out myself.

To be fair, a lot of the timelapse for today was just me referring to the guide half the time, but I got it (I think??) in the end and have finished the schema, only thing left is to add the footprints which I cannot figure out for the life of me, #hackpad here I come!

I thought this would be a fun challenge cause I’ve always wanted a streamdeck or utility keyboard of sorts, and being able to make my own personal one just makes the end product fit my needs better. So far, I have 7 keys, an LCD screen, and a rotary encoder which I hope are wired up correctly. I am thinking of replacing one key with another rotary encoder and adding 3 more keys to keep the shape, but I’m kinda limited on pins and am not planning on buying a GPIO expander (I think that’s what they are, someone mentioned it to me). More wiring is jus t gonna be harder for me to understand, so I might just keep it at one rotary encoder, or have two and just replace a key. That would give me 6 keys and two rotary encoders which is more symmetrical.

Anyways, that paragraph was just a dump of my thoughts, but yeah here’s the current schema!