This was my first real dive into Arduino and multiple button mapping. It took a significant amount of trouble shooting and learning the software to get things to map to the computer action.

Gif of the action https://imgur.com/a/XI9KTeH

Prototype 1:Started this project before I had a laser cutter and had tried to just drill through acrylic. It didn’t work well, but it held my buttons during testing

Prototype 2 Still no laser cutter but I cut out using plywood worked much better for manually cutting out the holes

Prototype 3 Much better

  • HypnotizedOPM
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    1 year ago

    Definitely post it!

    I designed this from scratch but it’s very simple

    use this website to help make boxes. https://en.makercase.com/#/

    You just put in the dimensions you want and it spits out the cut file. Once you have that you can just add your button placements in whatever software you use.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks ! Do you have to precisely take into account the width of the laser ? Or do the tolerances allow some < 1 mm errors ?

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        1 year ago

        I have never needed to adjust for laser kerf with that site. Put in the thickness of the material and it does the rest.