Kittypad
Hardware- 5 Devlogs
- 9 Total hours
A 4-Key Macropad that comes with a mini pet!
Hi! This looks great and love the silkscreren. Approved!
nice work on this, right now your readme is ai generated. please rewrite it without the use of ai, since a human is reading this, a human should write it!
Hello!
This is an amazing project! I love the cat idea! :3! However, before you can get the grant and the hackpad kit, please include the code that is going to make your OLED work in the firmware that you have put. So far, you have only added the keymap and the encoders functionalities. Once that is done, we will take another look, and **hopefully**, you will get approved!
omg the kitty is so cute, great work ! you need to add more stuff like schematic and PCB to the README tho, and your final ,uf2 compiled firmware file is missing from the production folder !
I created the basic firmware for the Kittypad, I intend to build the ‘game’ after I build the physical macropad so that I am able to test it.
I completed the CAD design for the case!
I added a counterbore as well as a 3mm thick border around the top case. I left the left side open as part of my design and to show off the silkscreen.
I realised that I had used the wrong LED in my PCB and had to face a bunch of DRC errors, because the footprint comes with a hole, the DRC assumed that there was lack of edge clearance and kept giving me the error, so I just ignored the violation.
Spent a whole bunch of hours fighting Fusion360 to create a base plate. Key features include holes at the bottom in order to put the heat inserts, as well as a drill hole of 3.1mm so that the screws can slide through easily.
I routed the PCB and added some silkscreen designs. I had surprisingly few errors in the DRC, mainly to do with grounding which I fixed by adding vias. I added a rectangle the size of the screen in order to gauge how large it would be.
I put the Gerber files into JLCPCB and it would cost 6.60 to produce 5 units, which I think is a pretty alright price.
Some issues I faced was that I didn’t realise that my USB port was sticking too far away from the edge until I was about to export the Gerber files and I ended up just cutting the board and rerouting some traces in order to keep it at the edge.
1st Jun 9-10PM
I worked on making the schematic for my macropad, which I intend to create a mini pet feature. Key features include 4 keys, 1 pushable knob which allows it to switch modes, an OLED screen as well as a status light indicator that changes with the status of the knob.
