Devlog #2

I have completed the first draft of the pcb of Nova it still needs alot of work i want to make the routes alot cleaner and more orginized and theres a ton of errors i also want to add like one of those cool designs that are actully on the pcb like in the hack club example so i am gonna work on those things next

Devlog #1

Today i Started my Hackpad called Nova, it features:
-9 Keys
-1 OLED Display
-1 Rotary Encoder

Here’s what happened

So first i read through the entire guide to try to understand the project and do some brainstorming than i copy and pasted the whole thing into chat gpt to help me brainstorm some ideas. Then i Watched and followed Joe Scotto’s videos including, “How a mechanical keyboard work” and “How to design mechanical keyboard PCB’s with KiCAD” Both of these proved really useful as they gave me an understanding of how to make a pcb and got me familiar with the software. than i did some research on how to implement the OLED and Rotary Encoder as those are not shown in his video’s. Than i finally made the schematic for Nova

Note

This took me a lot longer than 15 minutes the actual design part just for Nova took me like an hour but the lookout thing failed and did not save