AniiBoard

Total time spent so far: 47hrs

11th June: Research

Watched a lot of youtube tuts and read so many documents to get a basic idea and all of what i wanted make and make my keyboard look like. Decided to go with 75% Mechanical Keyboard layout (with 10 less keys) and some customisations.

It is gonna have a a EC11 Rotary Encoder, and a 0.91" OLED SSD1306 and is gonna use Rasberry pi Pico for it's micro controller.

Time Spent: 4hrs

12th June: Started with sch

I had done direct wiring before but never done the matrix wiring so first I learned how to do matrix wiring and how to use global Labels.

did some basic wiring, after an hour of research wired everything to mcu.

Time Spent: 5hrs

13th June: Started with sch

Completed the SCH and then moved on to PCB, Seriously It was pain, first I had to figureout how i can make the sizes of stwitches big and did all of them manually. Finnaly aligned all the switches and everything like the OLED and Encoder, the only things left are diodes

did some basic wiring, after an hour of research wired everything to mcu.

Time Spent: 5hrs

14th June: Started with PCB

aligned everything as I wanted or we can say according to my layout, it was kinda messy thig but finally after 4 hours did it. Faced challenges withe pcb part, as i was using matrix, and its my first time working with it so yea it was kinda hard and faced issues like the component placement grid, finding where to put the diodes

at last Done my component placement

Time Spent: 6hrs

15th June:Done by PCB

Finally after 5hr I'm completely done with the PCB connected everything and named my board and also added orpheus at the bottom.

Time Spent: 4hrs

16th June:Started With CAD(3D)

First I tohught it is gonna be easy I thought I can like use the guide of hackpad to make it, it is alot different, So made the bottom part but gonna make it again cause I don't think it is upto the mark.

Time Spent: 2hrs

18th June: Working on Case

Working on CAD Gotta sleep now been working on it for like 6 hous the above case wasn't good enough so i'm working on new one the images are below. Really had issues with OnShape but still made it out.

Time Spent: 6hrs

21st June: Completed by the case or the 3D part

faced alot of issues, like with onshpae but finally I made through and I love the fact that I hate onshape but still I'm loving onshape Made so much progress today, now I'm going to work on the firmware.

and all of sudden I just love highwaying, A very very big thanks to highway team.

Time Spent: 4hrs

22nd June: Completed by the firmware

I did some gpting since its very hard to make the firmware without having the parts with me 😭. and BOOM I had a firmware, I made a tiny functions like for Encoder and OLED display.

Time Spent: 2hrs

26nd June: Made the changes that were requested

Made the changes in the Cad part and now my case looks so much good

Time Spent: 4hrs

2nd July: Made the changes asked by Alex

Alex asked to make make change sin the CAD part. So, I choose to make it from scratch and use a different mounting method. Also I got a new idea of making Hand rest for my sweaty hands, so yea made it too. The hand rest is detachable I can easily remove or we say keep it aside, so yea it works good.

Time Spent: 5hrs