Flight Sim Hackpad

Finished working on firmware. I use QMK or whatever it’s called to do it. I did rely a bit on AI for this though, as I don’t know C and my design is different from the tutorial so it would’ve taken forever to learn.

I’ve also now published everything to github, and this is the last devlog before I click ship

(i attached an image of my fully assembled hackpad because i dont know what to screenshot for the firmware)

Finally finished working on the case after many struggles. This took forever, as I’m kinda terrible at CAD.

I did some in Fusion360, and some in Onshape. I went for the sandwich mount style :)

Worked on and finished the bottom part of my case! I just need to do the top now, which is a bit harder so I decided to get a 3D model of the board so i can make my case around it.

I was also fiddling around with inserting 3D models. The models were hard to fit perfectly, so it took a while.

I originally tried adding them in fusion, but then realised halfway through it would’ve been too hard inserting the other components as well.

1st image - kicad, 2nd image - where i switched from fusion to kicad, 3rd image - completed bottom case

Finished working on my schematic and PCB!!!

I had to use a pin expander because even if I used the matrix method, I would’ve been one pin short :/.

Anyways thanks for reading!!

Wired stuff. Had to rewire everything like 2 different times because i messed up and missunderstood how schematics work. Now I should be good. I’m one pin short, so I also researched ways I can fix it. I’m working on that now.

Started working on my hackpad. Just did the basic bit of the tutorial.

Issue I faced (not apart of total time): I accidentally deleted a symbol library at the start which took about 3 hours for me to find out what I did wrong 😭 .