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This was unlike anything I have undertaken before and I do not know if my HackPad has all the necessary components.
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I had many challenges that I had to persevere through while attempting to make my own
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macropad. At this point in time while it very possibly does not work in it's current form
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but I am proud of what I have accomplished so far.
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The first hurdle occured in KiCad where no matter how many times I imported the OPL + SEEED libraries I never got the same footprint as the tutorials so I had to
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figure out how to use a similar one.
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Then in KiCad the right menu bar dissapeared (idk why / how) and I couldn't find anywhere online how to make it appear. The elements on the PCB editor was barely visable and
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I finally got help in the Slack today on how to fix it (this set me back multiple days).
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The libraries still didn't import the 3d render of the Xiao in the viewer but I think I can solder it on.
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Routing the copper wires from the ratsnest and organizing the layout was pretty fun :) !
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Fusion was unfortunately very slow and took roughly an hour just to get downloaded and setup on my laptop (Fusion is just slow- I didn't do anything)
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Even through this all, for my first attempt at ever designing a PCB I do not think I did too bad.
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This has got me interested in hardware based projects and I am definitely planning on using the Onboard grant soon.
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![](https://cdn.hack.pet/slackcdn/9925e942fea228bc5d1dfbb328f476ac.png)
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![](https://cdn.hackclubber.dev/slackcdn/24457aabfe11c958d2ddef725ccffa1c.png)
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![](https://cdn.hackclubber.dev/slackcdn/c2d1ef55e18a314f70a79a06218c1f0d.png)
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BOM
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1. 9 Cherry MX Switches
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2. Rotary Switch Encoder
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3. Keycaps!
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4. Xiao Seeed rp2040

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