kmk update

i added oled support and thats really it

done

im not writing anything her ebc imma write a ship post
nvm you dont ship post for hardware…..

here is my hackpad: 5 keys and a rotary encoder/switch in matrix wiring, an OLED scree, 3 rgb LEDS (1 for underglow, 2 for key glow and lighting up the case.). the case has a 2 degree tilt. thereason it isnt more is bc the screws wouldn’t reach if it was more. the case is 126.64mm (length) x 95.18mm (width) x 21.5mm (height)

almost done

early devlog here. im just saing i finsihed teh redo for the holes making them 7mm from the wall instead of 5mm. but now i mchoosing to make them 10mm isntead of 7mm.
here it is rn i should be done by next session or max tmmrw

holy crappedididapidee

I’m almost done and this is like surreal. finally, all my hard work is coming to an end. all my pain suffering diligence is showing as a final product

i added a hc logo in the top right.
i gave up on the “cool effect” for a pokemon logo bc i keep getting manifold body errors.
I used the 2020 HC progress logo so i could get a cool rounded fillet effect.
also, instead of making the holes 5mm from the wall, they are 7mm. i saw some pics
also changing the name to pokepad

design

im now more focused on designs i added a pikachu and meowth. im ttryna add the pokemon logo. whats cool is that imma make it so the blue part with bbe at a different height from teh yellow and is will be a very cool effect.

production productive

I got a good job. I got the HC banner into the bottom, got the under glow led fixated. 

I was forced to move the old screen because it was too close and I wanted to chamfer the keys. Then I chamfered the keys.

i removed the fillets for less ram usage

also here are the 2.9 hours that i didn’t record to hackatime:

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uhh

so um. i was looking at my previous timlapses and i noticed…. that i was idling a ton. so and um.i dont want to count for fraud, so… uh…. my idea was to record my self designing for like 4 hours and would NOT put that in hackatime/lookout/lapse. i would just record it. i i would put it here. but yeah thats what happened.

i also got a 3rd layer

im going crazy

finished importing all the parts and moved them out of the main document so my computer doesn’t die opening it

found a problem though. the plate is only sized for the upper part of the switch base and not the bottom part so nothing sits right when i put it together

gonna need to add some tolerances to the parts too or nothing’s gonna fit clean

back to onshape

onshape

onshape is soooooo slow, even on unshaded graphics and ambient occlusion and 0%. like this is crazy. just yesterday it was good and now it is horrible

wow

i made a lot of updates here they are:

• usbc hole is rounded
• added in the pcb
• started adding in the parts
• removed my shading and maybe (call me crazy) i might use unshaded some of the time

bro what

i really dont know waht i did for 3hrs but ig i will devlog

i uh imported my pcb into onshape and that took really long ig and i am still tryna figure out why my top case doesnt align with the silkscreen on my pcb

Routing done

yeah ig thats it, i finished routing, now we gonna cad some more. I also figured out that you can use KMK for all of this. idk what QMK is for if KMK has all of this. ts is just in a harder coding lang

updates and descisions

i updated the board by rounding the corners, i updated the 3d models of parts in kicad, and now it looks very good. I also added an OLDE.

future

i am gonna make my thign look like the orpheuspad like qcoral :). (not copying) but like I would like it to look as clean as it with the round corners and no screw holes on the tops.

im tilting

I added a tilt and this is prolly the coolest thing abt this case. how i did it was i created a rectangle with lenght of the case width. then extrudedd that and rotated it just like the rest of the case. tehn i got the mesurement of the triangle it created. then i extrueded teh triangle. that is the wedge created.

next, I added one hole for the screw and insert. since i only get 6 screws and inserts and already used 4, i can only secure the tilt with 2. i had to use a hole instead of the extrude because the screws have to be perpendicualr to the bottom. i also made the insert be in the bottom case instead of the tilt because i didn’t like the vision of the heatset insert being visible

pokemon macropad is done

finished the wiring changes, added the 4 rgb leds, wrote the kmk firmware for the encoder and keys, finalized the case in onshape, and wrapped up the submission reqs. fully built, fully working, pokemon themed start to finish

Case Designing

so i basically worked for 2 hours and finished the case and am planning to add more flair like my name and some pokemon later👍

next step is the usb c hole and the firmware!

🫠fusion blew my computer up so i had to shift to onshape