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)
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
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:
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
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
built a terminal calculator in python today. nothing really big. i did this for the sticker

the main thing i wanted was a clean menu system so i used a numbered list and sys.exit() to handle the exit case gracefully. sys.exit() was the cool thing i found that makes the code exit without all these error messages in the terminal. additionally, also added input validation so if you pick a choice outside 1-5 it tells you instead of just crashing.
one fun thing: added ascii art at the start and end using multiline print statements. the banner at the top took a while to get right because the spacing kept breaking.
also handled division by zero explicitly since thats a pretty common edge case that trips people up.
next steps: maybe add a loop so you can do multiple calculations without rerunning the script
i added some stuff imma just list it im too lazy to give any paragraph
the file was too large 
https://cdn.hackclub.com/019f052f-c148-7c51-916c-bdd13bb43783/Screen%20Recording%202026-06-26%20142254.mp4
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.
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.