DaveMay I present, the next version of the #LoKiPAD - this can be a lot of things, but hopefully something musical. 25 buttons, 25 LEDs, Display again and one encoder.
Oh yeah and I still have to route it, hehe. Just 200 and something wires.
routed while being on the phone with a friend for 2 hours and now I've ordered it :)
LEDs work and I decided on a color scheme for the buttons on the first one woopwoop.
John Mueller@davedarko Those colored buttons look awesome! Have you considered using low-profile, low-travel keyboard switches for something like this? or does that tend to make it too expensive?
So I started designing the #LoKiPad by basically making a cheap clone of the adafruit nanopad, that @todbot used in a project. I removed the mechanical keys and just used 12mm buttons instead. Then I sold my pocket operator and thought, I can just do some changes and so I ended up here. I guess there's a hole in the universe for mechanical keys on pocket operators now :) would extend the PCB size a lot, too.
The project that inspired all this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLwP-vyvtLM&t=19s&ab_channel=todbot
Drone synth with MacroPadSynthPlug
@davedarko @todbot So much for me suggesting something new :-). That one looks cool too.