Fishboard Log 5

Most of this log was spent on the firmware. I am thoroughly out of my depth, but I am learning and having fun so it’s a success.

My current tasks are to get the rotary encoder to swap the layers, and make the layers do different things.

After that, I plan to tackle making the LEDs and OLED do things. I might make a companion productivity Tamagotchi where the creature lives in the keyboard, that’d be cute.

Most of the time spent in this Dev log was spent figuring out QMK, and getting the base stuff set up. It is truthfully a program I find very confusing, but I am looking forward to improving and making some complex & cool stuff

Hello! I finished the PCB (removed the right angles and fixed a few other things).
|I then worked on the case, which presented a few challenges in spacing and where the components properly sat, but it worked out.
I also added a little drawer section that you can snap on with magnets, and will probably make the bottom of it lego compatible just because.

Alright, we might have ended up adding a dial, Screen, and 2 more LEDs. My new goal is to see just how many features one can theoretically get inside a single mini-keyboard. I’m going to ask for some confirmation that I’ve not messed anything up in the hackpad channel and then should be able to move onto CAD & firmware. (also might add a mounting hole or two before moving on)

We made some progress!!! I got all the pieces in the place I want them after a lot of back and forth and figuring out what works and what doesn’t Routing had me messed up for a very long time & I lost an LED that I’m going to need to put back because I figured out routing.

I didn’t know about vias which made it incredibly difficult to route the copper without it being impossible, it was like an impossible version of one of those colorful pipe puzzles

I have some errors to deal with and I am not sure precisely what they mean so I will be yapping in the hackpad chat later, but once I am on to the case, I plan to make it look like a fish (as one does). For the LEDs, I plan to have them signal what mode of 4 the fishboard is in, with different keybinds for each mode.

I spent a while messing around with the tutorial trying to make a basic PCB that somewhat resembles what I want to have as the final product. I intend to go back and add a few more switches (and maybe a dial?), but wanted to get familiar-ish with the program.
I am still very confused but doing better than when I started