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Devlog #3:
oohhh boyy , where can i start today is the first day of the winter holidays so there is a lotttt that happened since last time i finallyyyy got the wiring to workk anddddd also added the touch pins functionality so now it’s just adding some software so it integrates with my pc , it looks cool af (it’s basically 2 breadboards with half of the 4 digit display ports bent so they fit the 2nds board , and the display on top flipped ) you may ask why not ddo it all on a single breadboard and to that i sayy cuz why not ? no but to be fr it’s because of space since the segment displaytakes both rows of the breadboard so if i want to add te oled display it must be on the side and the esp whould have no space to go
also there are some honorable mentions to the updates theyt aren’t related to the project but i think they are cool :) now i have a working casette deck which i used last night to record lots of boootleg casettes of albums i like andd i am installing macOS vm so i can work on ios apps for a future project >;D

Ummm Devlog 2# ?
tbh it looks like i made a lot of progress but when i think about it i haven’t done anything new actually it might be considered a downgrade since now the segment display don’t even work, i have tried to make it work with the 8x8 which involved a lot of overengineering i have tried MULTIPLEXING?? idk what it’s called but it’s basically i am sharing pins between the two displays in a very specific layout so that i can make pins that are HIGH and LOW at the same tile connected which wasn’t ideal cuz even which all optimizations it left me with either only being able to use 8x4 of the display or having only 2 pins left for buttons and other stuff, but when i was going to start wiring for it i searched my box for some resistors since this method required 8 instead of the previous only 4 , i found a 0.96 oled display that i have completely forgotten about and is perfect for this setup yes it’s smaller but it got like 4 times more resolution and also only required 2 pins and i started setting it but it seems that the 7 segment after redoing the wiring since i needed to switch breadboards is absolutely cooked it doesn’t work properly anymore and even when it does it’s very unstable to be realistic ik that’s probably because i bent the jumper wires so it looks prettier but even when i bent them back it seems like the setup is very crammed which is a shame since now i either try to find a way to better route the wires or give up the cook look i was aiming for
BUT that’s an issue for an other day since now i am tired and want to sleep

Devlog #1:
I got the segment display to work since it’s new to me i wanted to be finished with it first , and now I’ve just realized that my current setup might not be possible i have already used like half the pins on the esp and this is meant to be the not too pin intensive task, if i want to continue i might need to remove one of the displays :/ , plus i only have 10 resistors so it’s even more challenging
i have thought of using the pins strategically by combining pins that will be in HIGH and LOW state in the same time but that needs full understanding of what to display and when and it won’t probably save that much pins
I need a different approach

Devlog #0:
Sooo how do i plan on achieving this, well idk either :)
I do have a general knwoledge of how everything will work , so for the buttons they are gonna be aluminum foil pads put under the desk connected to touch sensitive pins, i don’t know if they are able to change capacitance even over the wood
the display are bare bare displays without any drivers n, i do know how they work especially the 8x8 one since i worked on other projects with it my only issue with them that i only have 10 total resistors and they both need a total of 14 i did think of something like PWM that flicks between the dispalys very rapidly but the 8x8 already have something like this so it will dim the light even more
Regarding the brain it’s gonna be an ESP32 since it have more an enough pins and brain power to get this going without issues