Journal

2025/05/19 ( and the past 3 days I didnt )

This has been mostly just research on how I'm actually pulling this off. I've ( tenatively ) setteled on this as a very rough list of what I'll use: - ESP32s3 - Some sort of small TFT display - microSd reader - rotary encoder? - headphone jack - some buttons ? - rechargeable battery? I still need to figure out the best input methods, as well as whether a battery is super important for the design. I think it would be a nice bonus, but not nessicary if the footprint gets too tight. I also started to gather references for the design, not sure whether to go for the pre or post revamp termial model for inspo. ( these frickers )

Scraped ultrakill assets for raw files, need to actually find the terminal now

time spent: ~4 hrs over the last 3 days?

2025/06/04

OK, so it's been a while. I kinda dissapeared so i could speedrun solder, and resign my hackboard case to practice CAD. I've semi-settled on a ~2.4 inch display~, it didnt fit, so I'm starting to design the case based off of it. It was a pain to scrape the ultrakill models, but I'm in love with the design of the cybergrind terminal, ( there's a section on the back that's just begging for a SD card slot :3 )

The basic case shapes are done, so I'm going to start to try laying out part locations, and then I'll get on the PCB! I changed to a 2.8 inch display ( A ILI9341 ), so I can finalize a parts list around that now!

*time spent: 3 hrs