Devlog 8 - Mae here! The first real piece of the controller is “finished”! Below is the first revision of the top cover of the controller, fully CNCed, painted, and laser engraved! It doesn’t look so great (for reasons I’ll get into later), but it lets me start assembly, as the cover can be swapped out later!
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Okay, so first things first, the text looks bad. I am (very) aware of this, and the issue stems from one mistake I made when planning. In my infinite wisdom, I decided it would be a good idea to laser engrave a perfectly white object….. As you can imagine, it failed to cut proper;y, so I had to do a very high power pass, making the text look sloppy. Additionally, between the first and second passes, I inadvertently bumped the laser head, making the text ofset from where it should be.
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To fix this, the next version (already in the works) will engrave the text on the CNC mill. This should provide a much better color and better contrast for the text, as well as removing any issue with the text being offset.
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Finally, while the second cover is being machined, I’ve started work creating the circuit boards which connect the buttons to the arduinos! I procrastinated on this devlog a little, so that devlog will be coming later tonight!