Having fun putting together a "ghetto" version of the adafruit macro pad, just because @todbot wrote such cool sound stuff for it. I want to recycle some components and this is fun to design till 3am apparently.
I'm integrating his macro pad that uses the qwiic port for audio out and midi-in. Using up some simpler parts like 12mm buttons, 5mm neopixels and I might have ordered a 7-pin OLED display. On the back is a RP2040 PICO.
Need to remove some through holes.
Didn't realize how meta the name "ghettoPAD" is:
one of my first Attiny projects I've build was "Ghetto Pixels" - a clone of the BlinkM project. Guess who made the BlinkM: todbot.
After a friendly nudge on the problematic name, I'm now calling it LoKiPad, just because it's low-key and a key-pad and I don't know it's a project not a product thankfully :)
PCBs arrived this week and just today I got almost everything else. What I didn't realise was that I ordered SK6812 3535 LEDs instead of WS2812 3535 LEDs.This meant I had them 90 degrees off on the board, didn't realise that and swapped the regulator (successfully) on the Pico first. To remove the LEDs I then basically almost melted down all the buttons, ugh. But they still work (11.5/12). Got the display to run (yay) and sound comes out (yay) and the encoder works :)
ordered another run of LEDs, more 12mm smd buttons and a second display just for fun and maybe because I've soldered a second pico to a pcb to test the pcb for shorts.
Dave