Devlog #5

README

Hii everyone!!
Today I wrote the README file for github and also made the firmware using QMK, but I forgot to record it XD

So if everything works correctly the keys should be mapped like this:

┌──────┬──────┬──────┐
│    PREV     │     PLAY     │    NEXT    │
│──────┼────── │──────│
│      F13       │      F14       │ LOCK        │
└──────┴──────┴──────┘

Where each function is:

• PREV > Previous Media
• PLAY > Play or Stop current Media
• NEXT > Next Media
• F13 > Free Macro Mey
• F14 > Free Macro Key
• LOCK > Lock Screen

I will ship the design and see. If everything works and I get the grants, next devlog will be once I get all the stuff to actually build it :)

Byeee thanks for reading!!

Devlog #4

I HATE DESIGNING

Hi..!
Today as I said, I did what should have been the case for my hackpad. I thought it would have been something fast, a few hours.

BUT NO.

It took me 5 hours and a half to do THIS awful thing, IT’S NOT EVEN A CASE. I tried doing a normal one but I couldn’t. I never understood (and will never understand) how to model stuff and so I did this.
Open case hackpad it is….

Btw I started this session at 13:27 and I finished now at 21:39. I will never touch Fusion again after this pain.

But… anyway. Let me know what you think, I know it kinda sucks but yeah…
Thanks for reading :)

Devlog #3

LEDs !!

Hey guys!! I managed to add the LEDs :)
Turns out it was pretty easy but it took me quite some time because looking online I couldn’t find one answer so I had to ask on the Slack channel.

But anyway. Other than the LEDs I rerouted everything It felt kinda messy so I deleted all connections and started from zero. Now I’m much happier with the result. Surely, if someone is more experienced, to him it might not look that good, but it does to me and for being my first ever time I am very proud :)
I plan on now moving to the case design which I hope to finish before the end of the week.

Overall I am VERY satisfied of what I did today, and also I am liking this A LOT, maybe more than coding… crazy.

Thank you all for reading this
Have a wonderful day :)

Devlog #2

LEDs ??

Hello again everyone!!
I spent some time looking around the internet and other macropads, and this gave me the need to add LEDs to my project, and so I tried.

I hopefully connected them in the right way in the schematic but still don’t know how to place them on the PCB. If anyone knows, PLEASE PLEASE, leave a comment <3, I will try to search online tomorrow to find how to make it.

Also I basically removed all the connections in the schematic and used even more labels, since it looks way cleaner this way.

I really hope I am able to finish the PCB soon with a layout I like so I can move to designing, which will be another new world for me :D

Thanks for reading!! Have a great day

Devlog #1

First time!

Hiii everyone!
Today I wanted to try something new. All my projects are software related because that’s what I have been doing for the past years, but today I wanted to explore some hardware, so I started the Hackpad mission. In the attached screenshot is the result of what I managed to do in roughly 1 hours and a half.

Before starting this, and before tracking any time, I did watch this video to understand how KiCad worked and how to make a simple 3x3 keyboard. Then I just looked up some ideas and came up with my own design, picked the components and started doing mine.