 Hey, what's up folks? Welcome back to another layer by layer in today's tutorial. We're gonna take a look at the lemon keypad project So check out the learn dot 85 comm our guide just got published You can check it out if you'd like to build your own lemon keypad We have the code the circuit diagram all the assets and step-by-step instructions how to build your own I have a link in the description to check that out But I want to talk about like where the idea came from it wasn't one of the things where I'm like I'm gonna make a lemon keypad. It did not start that way So I kind of want to show you folks like where this kind of came from So in fusion I had the idea to do something with path on pattern This is a way to create a custom unique path and then apply a pattern to it in this case I wanted to use cherry MX switches So I have the model from grab cad. It's a cherry MX switch, but it could also be a kale switch So if you folks want to do some projects with a cherry MX or kale switch Check out the link in the description. You can download this This really nice model of the of the cherry MX slash kale switch So once I brought that in I created this This sketch and I use the spline tool to kind of create a swirl and if you use the spline tool You know, it's a it's a little bit of a tricky thing to mess with these handles But you can you can massage them to create like smooth organic shapes like this swirl So once I did that I figured let me see if I can do a pattern on path Which you totally can do it works really well You have a lot of control to do something really unique and this is kind of what I came up with It's it's neat that you can Kind of massage and adjust the the path and like the path on pattern will kind of adapt to it Which is kind of neat But and it's it also had this kind of a silly pun like there's cherries There's a swirl you got a cherry swirl. I didn't really end up going with this layout because it's just too far out There it's more artistic than the natural functional. So then I thought about well, it kind of looks like a circle What about circular keypads? I don't see many circular keypads with cherry MX switches. How about we do that? So I started searching around on Google and I can't and I found some interesting products that are circular keypads This one here is is meant for like I guess safes or security locks It's got this 12 kind of segment keypad with some buttons in the center It's it's more of a touchscreen though, but I like the layout I also found this cool like virtual keys layout idea for like maybe an ocular slip riff or some sort of VR stuff And you can see how the segments are a little bit different You have like 12 on the outside or maybe it's six on the outside and whatever five in the inside kind of neat Here's another view another image of that Security dial just kind of looking at and then like this is like a fun toy that my nephew has I really I just saw it in the quarter mile. I was like, that's a circular keypad Let me take a picture of it. So that was inspirational too. And then while you're searching for circular keypads Of course, you're gonna come up with Japanese keyboards, right huge circular disc but what I don't like about it is like too many keys and there's still kind of these square keycaps I really wanted to do something with different shaped keycaps like you can keep keep seeing the same shaped keycaps, right? And then I found this kind of gamer keypad. It is actually a Kickstarter. That was somewhat of a scam I'm not much of a gamer. So I didn't go with this route, but I still save this as an inspirational image Like I thought that was neat But yeah, it's a bit of a scam And then this came up. It's like it's just a product image of cherry or kale switches It's just funny that like they they orient the photo orient them in a circular So I guess that came up somehow Then I found this very strange bizarre keyboard. It's called the be raider, which is kind of neat I don't know what it's used for it's kind of a tense, but very unique very interesting. Maybe it's for editing or something I'm not sure and then I found this kind of phone this kind of Rotary then the center looks like it's a rotary dial and then the outside you have these 12 keys But I like the keys because they have these really sweet curves that are kind of all swooping It almost looks like a fan blade or something. So that's kind of where I wanted to go So more keep more circular keypad, right? Then I found this calculator super cute You got 12 keys on the outside and then the inside is like four functions For a calculator. So I thought that was really clever and I kind of wanted to go that route. So that's That's really where I left off like I'm gonna just kind of do this layout 12 keys on the outside and maybe I'll do something on the inside So infusion I came up with this It's got those 12 keys and it's pretty simple I got up to the point where like I figured out this is where I want my microcontroller to be their feather And this is where I want the keys to be but I didn't quite figure out. Well, what can I do in the center? It's a bit of wasted space. Maybe I could put a rotary dial But it's just making it a little bit more complicated. I wanted to simplify this and keep this as simple as possible Because it's it's helpful when you need to document something and film it and make instructions It's better if it's a simple project So I kind of figured all right. Well, let me reduce this from 12 keys to six keys Let me see if I can compress everything down as I kept Fitting it further and further and compressing it down The the keycaps themselves like at some point these fillets here on the edges ended up looking Like a triangle it ended up looking like this So as I kept playing with the scaling of it, it ended up looking like this fruit And that's really where the idea came from. It's like, okay This looks like a lemon or an orange or some sort of fruit with these little segments and the segments can be the keys So that's kind of where it came out of as I kept cutting things away The shape kind of presented itself And then it got me thinking like oh, I remember seeing some a project from three years ago on Instructibles of a food keypad. This is a rad pizza slice It's using arcade buttons and an Arduino, but it's it's still got that kind of concept of being a cute Editable like it's a food keypad. So I thought this is perfect like this is where I want to go I want to do a lemon. So that's really where it came from If you want to check out the pizza slice that you got a link to from broken antler workshop here but yeah, it's it's just kind of funny how it It ended up becoming what it is just from making it simpler and Chain, you know applying some colors to it and it really looks like like a fruity lemon So I hope that's inspirational. I will do another layer-by-layer on kind of breaking down the CAD stuff There's some interesting techniques that I think folks could use but this one was just more of like a quick Here's where an idea can come from and where it ended up So let me know what you think about this style of video if you want to see more kind of where do your ideas come from I'd like to maybe try this again, but hey, I'll see you guys in the next one But until then remember to make a lemony day. Bye folks