This week our mission is to design our own PCB that includes a few peripheral or interactive components (eg. a button or an LED). After designing, mill and solder the components to the board. I selected EAGLE as my software package to design the board. Before starting drawing my PCB, I did some tutrials that I found useful, including SparkFun Guide and Electronics Design - Eagle

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Design my Own Board

Those are the components that was on the origninal Hello Echo Board:
● 6-pin programming header: for programming the board
● microcontroller: attiny44A. Once the microcontroller is programmed, the program stored in non-volatile memory. This means that it will remember the program.
● FTDI header: powers the board and allows board to talk to computer
● 20MHz resonator: external clock. The attiny has a 8Mhz clock but the resonator is faster (increase the clock speed of the processor) and more accurate.

There are the components that we need to add on:
● Resistor (value 10k)
   Purpose: pull-up resistor.
● Button (OMERON switch)
● Ground
● VCC
● connect pin 10 (PA3) on the microcontroller to the button
● LED (Light Emitting Diode) - LEDs have polarity - the side with the line is the cathode and connects to the ground side.(see schematic below)
● Resistor (value 499 ohms)
   Purpose: current limiting resistor
   Why do we need a current limiting resistor? So we don't burn out the LED.

Following the turial, I made my board. However, I add one more LED to show the board is on, and a "reset" button. (The red circle on the right.)

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Since there are so many beautiful PCB layouts that were made by prior students, I was also trying to made mine as a cute rabbit and did some roughly sketch on it.