Week 5
Things I did this week:
Use an EDA tool to design a development board
I used KiCad, in general I think it is a well developed tool, very easy to use.
Labels are really easy to use, and it really make life esaier without having to have everything routed together. I also removed the holes in the footprint of XIAO RP2040 since we want to surface mount the board.
I designed a simple board with 8 pinheaders, a speaker, an LED and a switch.
PCB design
PCB printed
I then tried to do a customized shape with Rick Sanchez's face. It was sort of tedious to do it in KiCad since the curves were created from a circle. I tried to make the outline of his face to be ground to avoid messy lines. Overall I'm satisfied with the result.
image credit: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/612348880580402957/
added outline