@mohan

I chose the parts that I’m going to use, made a schematic, and did most of the CAD. I’m going to use an ESP32 C3 mini, a passive piezo buzzer, a 2.8” ILI9341 LCD, cherry mx style switches with keycaps, and a 100 ohm resistor, along with perfboards. I chose to go with perfboards instead of a PCB because it will be faster, and I think its better because I’m going to be wiring the switches and screen anyway, so there’s no point in paying and waiting for a PCB just to hold the ESP32 and the buzzer. I also did most of the CAD. I might go back and make it look a bit better but I think its fine as is. The only changes I think I may make are closing the sides and giving the screen a bit of an angle.

I made a lot of substantial changes, but I think my website is now done. The home page is now significantly more interesting with the featured projects. Many of the changes I made were just content on the extracurriculars and projects pages, but I learned how to add image carousels which was cool. The navbar also now shows what page you’re on. Seems like I need to do more software projects to balance out the software section of my projects page.

Finding parts: This project is going to be a lot more complicated (and more expensive!) than I anticipated, so I’m not going to make it an FPV drone. The parts I’m getting should allow for upgrading it in the future to have FPV. I don’t think Hackclub will cover all of the costs because its over 200 bucks with fourth of July sales and so it will probably be over 300 by the time I get funding. The prices in the BOM don’t include sales. For example, the 85 dollar motors are on sale right now for just over $40.

I did a lot of formatting work and started to do project stuff. I now have one hardware project there and it should be easy (other than the actual content) to add other hardware and software projects to my website. For the hardware one I have, I embedded the build demo video. I also put the connect with me stuff on the home page as well as the connect page. There is now a tab icon, too. The website is now deployed at https://mohan-east.vercel.app/

I started the home page, developed the connect page, and worked on CSS. I had to get creative to get rid of a weird LinkedIn badge glitch - I had to add a border encroaching on the badge to hide the weird border.

I started assembly. I still don’t have enough funds for the PCB (Blueprint please fulfill my order for a grant from the shop 🙏). I inserted all of the switches into the 3D printed top plate , which is a necessary step prior to soldering the switches to the PCB.

CAD work - after the first print of the top plate I realized a couple of issues. First, I hadn’t made holes for the stabilizers. Second, and this was just cosmetic, there were partial labels for the diodes from the KiCAD .step export in my top plate, which made the edges of the key holes look messy. I fixed both issues.

I mainly focused on the about section, where I have links to some socials as well as a short bio and some projects I’ve worked on.