Cooking up circuits for future projects
Serves: One ambitious electronics chef
Total Time: Several hours of designing, laying out, and simulating
This week I prepared my first PCB in KiCad. I designed a board around a Xiao ESP32-S3 microcontroller, with an MPU-6050 6 DOF accelerometer/gyroscope to track step speed, and a DFR0299 mini MP3 player module to output audio to a 2-pin speaker. Creating a solid PCB “base layer” will make future weekly projects and my final project much easier.
Since the full design wouldn’t benefit from simulation, I prepared a small demo to satisfy the simulation portion of the assignment. I used Wowki to design a simple circuit that blinks an LED on and off — a tasty little appetizer for electronics practice.
