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The firmware is (almost) completed! I decided to ditch some ideas i had earlier as it turned out im not advanced enough to apply them yet lol. so for the keymaps, I decided to set the bottom 3 keys to controll music and the top 3 to act as a discord mic mute, and the delete key (i still haven’t decided on the funtion of the last one) I intentionally left the oled firmware unpolished yet, although it works, bescause i’d rather do it when i got the pad assembled and am able to test it’s functions rather than blind guess if it would work.

I’ve desided to make some changes in the pcb. I realised, that moving the mcu to the back created a lot of free space that allowed me to change the oled to a 30x128 and move it closer to the center, which made the pcb thinner. I adjusted the case too and i think it looks much cleaner now. So the pcb and the case are all finished now. On to the next part wchich is code. I’ll be using the qmk firmware for that, propably.😁😁

Quick log. I moved the mcu to the back of the board so it fits in the case. I had trouble shaping the edges of the case so i arranged the screwholes in this pattern below. I’m propably going to change it anyway, maybe just move them to the bottom and have a plate attach there (it will be harder to solder it that way but im willing to let that slide).

Today I spent my time designing the case for my macropad. I got the main shape right, but it still needs some touchups before i submit the project. i narrowed the width of the pcb just a tiny bit as i realised it was taking mesurements wrong and the switches would be off to the left so its 67,3 by 68,4 mm now. I gotta say, the proccess designing that case was gruesome😵‍💫. at first i tried using Autodesk Fusion but i soon realised it was like using a jackhammer to drive a nail so i switched do Shapr3D😅. It made things a bit easier to understand, but still, it was my first time using a 3D software so i had to learn all the basics first. i also had some problems with the keyboard plate generator as i didn’t know how to set the plate’s dimensions to my preferences so i just made my own plate. that took some time taking all the mesurements but i think it was worth it. i still need to polish some things like chamfer the edges, maybe add some designs and make it a bit less blocky overall.

Today i made all of the needed pcb schematics! I changed my mind on the amout of switches i wanna use, so i removed the bottom row-now its a 2x3 macropad lol. I also added a ground plane instead of routing everything to ground individually which proved to be really easy and effective. I had some problems with the schematic editor. it was constantly crashing when i copied or pasted my components but i eventually got there. when i finish designing the case i think i’ll be ready to submit the project. This may prove to be difficult tho, as i have never used autodesk fushion before😭 Wish me luck!