Devlog #2

I just finished the schematic of my PCB. Now I’m working on the design of the PCB. I arranged the switches and diodes. I don’t know where to place the microcontroller. My plan was to put it on the left but then the case woul be too big. I think I’ll place it on the back of my PCB behind the display.

Devlog 1

I started designing my Hackapad! At first I designed a sketch in Tinkercad. I included 8 buttons, 2 rotary encoders and the display. For the colors I drew my inspiration from devices by Teenage Engineering. As I was designing the matrix, I realized that I was using too many ports than I were available. So my solution is to include the two encoders in the matrix for the press signal and wire one of them for the rotary signal. Then I used exactly all 11 ports of the microcontroller.