I’m building a extension of a TKL keyboard with a numpad and other customizable keys near it, also it will have an knob for volume control. It will support Via so the user can remap keys to their liking
Hey, great work on this - you should be getting your grants now cuz im approving ts ! At the moment we are actually all out of kits - they will get to hq around tmrw or day after tmrw and will be shipped soon !
returning this as it has already been approved!
I am glad to announce that the firmware is build and it compiles and has no errors, yeeee!!!!
I do hope that it will actually run when I get to build and flash it to the microcontroller.
Finally finished designing the case!
Because for some reason Fusion didn’t save the project (even though I clicked save multiple times) I had to redesign everything and also I added some improvements.
I had to change the PCB a little couse one of the “legs” of the rotary encoder when through the board of the microcontroller.
I tried and left everywhere a 0.2 mm gap between part and I hope that everything will work out, but some things are pretty precisely placed.😅
Now I’ll have to make the firmware of the keyboard and make QMK read my Japanese Matrix, but I already found some sources and GitHub repos so HOPEFULLY it will go smoothly (famous last words, but still I hope).
Finally made an ok version of the bottom part of the case. I’m new to CAD in general and holding the right click in Fusion being mapped to some kind of drawing feature instead of rotating the camera seemed annoying and I still don’t really get it. I want to make the bottom plate the one with the screw holes, so the macropad screws in from the bottom, and I want the screws to sit flush with the case, this way it has a more “premium” feel.
I’m sorry I didn’t record the PCB design process because I didn’t know that for the hackpad I had to record the design process. I had to reroute the traces of my PCB a few times to get it to a “good enough” point, but I still think it is a little messy, but still much better than the first routing.
