Group project: Use the test equipment in your lab to observe the operation of a microcontroller circuit board

Status: Complete!

Learnings: You put the black and red things on the USB bit of your board and if it starts aggressively beeping at you, you have done something wrong. If it starts over-heating, you have done something wrong. If Rob is surprised, you either did something really wrong or you got it right.

Individual project: Redraw an echo hello-world board, add (at least) a button and LED (with current-limiting resistor), check the design rules, make it, and test that it can communicate

This week's odyssey - Part 1 - Intro: I decided to make a really simple board based on the one from the Kicad recitation. Simple enough...





Part 2 - Complication: That wasn't so hard! It was kind of fun working out how to not get my wires crossed - but I don't think it would've been so fun on a more complicated board - surely there's an algorithm for this?! Anyway, this part done, I was onto the easy bits, the bits I'd done before... I jumped right in to milling my board, but what came out was Frankensteinian...







Part 3 - Resolution: Beg for help from your classmates. Tim - Doria, what the hell am I doing wrong?! Where are these mystery lines coming from?! Doria - I have no idea... but maybe export as a PNG instead. Narrator - everyone lived happily ever after. Tim's board is pretty and (most likely) functional - testing still to come...