So I’ve decided to make a bunch of changed to my design. Through the tutorial page, I know have a fair grasp of KiCad which was my biggest issue up to this point. More importantly I now have a full list of parts that I can request. I’m still working out exactly how big I want to make my hackpad. I’m thinking 9 keys and 2 rotary encoders for now, this means I can have enough inputs for any situation. This leads to my next point, I previously discussed the idea of making my hackpad adapt to what I’m currently doing. After some thinking and research I plan on doing this by having it talk via serial with my laptop and having some kind of interpretation layer (likely in python) to check what I’m currently doing and then carry out the intended action. I’ve also seen some others add backlighting to their hackpads and it looks like a good idea so I’ll probably try and implement that as well.