Im. So. Done. i woke up today and worked on the. damn thing. But its all over now. everything is okay. the storm has passed. its smooth sailing from here.

halfway through coding did i realize…. i have not tested my code on the actual hardware ONCE. THE WHOLE TIME, i had been using an emulator for the rpi-rgb-led-matrix library.

what a lesson to learn. 5 hours in and the code doesnt work on the rpi! shocker! did you know the pynputs library is lying to you? did you know it doesn’t work on a headless environment? i had to rewrite lots code, bodge things together very quickly until something worked.

other than that, i made a few README.mds, getting things ready for shipping, edit my CAD file, hand-sawed a few too many parts to fit, erase any mention of a BMS in the repo because the only one I had puffed up in smoke. but now things are ready to ship. i’m so happy