Finished the Project🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

While all the featurs aren’t added yet , a basic firmware is complete and as such I need the thing in hands to optimize it further

I really need a 3d printer and but alas

for anyone that wants to see or use the onshape case here is the link

The Firmware is almost finished

so whats done

• added rgb support
• added two layers to the keyboard
• base layer and RBG layer
• added animation to the keyboard
• read a lot of documentation
• added a bit of via support( thats main wip thing)

Whats remaining

• via support ( adding the remaing via stuff)
• some more rbg effects

What I did

made some firmware :

• added rgb lighting
• configured the layout for the keys

some other stuff that I think might work

so far I am using a vm for qmk since its better than wsl2 and both performance and ram usage

but it too has its bottleneck so I am think of a dual boot of arch with cinnamon as DE , since that what I am familiar with

Learning QMK is going to be a tast but a fun one
Luckly it does not need knowledge of C language
Else I might pivot to another firmware someware

there is not really a photo for me to add so I will just add a logo

Finished the PCB Housing

Well, the DXF import does not seem constrained like I think it should be

And thus I had to do a lot of manual constraint

Learned OnShape through YouTube and furthermore attempted to make the housing for the PCB.
Haven’t finished it though

Finished the PCB; the next step is making the actual body using one shape

what this hackpad has
7 programmable switches, one programmable rotary encoder for volume /scrolling

I might add a screen but thats if I remake it again which aint happening anytime soon

It’s interesting how quickly you feel your past self was stupid fore doing thing one way.

Like, my attempt at adding leds to the keyboard key spiralled into entire schematics and pcb being made from scratch. It’s kind of fun learning a new skill on the fly to make a project.

Added Leds and lighting for aesthetics for the hackpad.
Requires further improvement
Will continue to improve

Okay so verification took a while so this devlog will have a lot of things,
What I have does so far

Designed the PCB schematics.
Designed the PCB.