Project Thorax

Woah! too many hours logged and not enough devlogs lol

so the past two days ive been trying to decrypt all these random documents that talk about how to wire different things and what pins do what
however, after looking through all of these, I’ve come to the conclusion that 1. I still have a LOT to learn 😭and 2. i should prolly take the components 1 by 1

i started trying to wire up the usb-c(which i replaced with the kicad generic one ooh so fancy looking!), but ran into a problem while looking for the capacitors some reference documents say they use

in the second image i have, you can see in all 5 pixels what the image says(seriously though if anyone knows what it says lmk)

so right now im on the hunt for the correct capacitors for the project

also thought i should share that the hackpad stardust prize is RIDICUOUSLY low - ONE stardust are we serious???

lots of stuff going on!
very happy to say i did a lot of work recently :D

so first off i made a new banner for my project lmk if u like him :)

ive been doing some research on different components im gonna need and also attempting to itemize my stuff so it s easier to visualize - i gotta say looking to be more expensive than i thought

today i mostly looked at step-down voltage converters(essentially make sure that electricity doesnt flow at a rate too high for electronics) and bluetooth chips that are low energy(nordic semiconductor is looking very promising!)

only problems i currently have is first FINDING THIS BLUETOOTH CHIP FOOTPRINT AND SYMBOL I CANT FIND IT ANYWHERE AND I DONT WANT TO HAVE TO SPEND HOURS JUST MAKING IT IN KICAD and second just understanding wiring and what different pins actually do

also thought i should share that im chrome tab maxxing rn

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EHGDPYE_L2ZDA2Ll7cWK8OQcedOOThalmhql7GgHQ5M/edit?usp=sharing
^^parts doc

also thought i should say that ive seen an uptick in ai devlogs so i wanted to take a moment to ask all of you to write your own devlogs please it adds a lot more character :)

first off - Documentation is INSANE bro these devs are not paid enough

anyways i just wanted to post an update of the schematic rq and also wanted to share i rerolled a +0 BRO HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN

Digikey and Mouser Struggles
For much of this stage of attempting to find the parts I need, I ran into many problems with the parts vendors and their bot detection and sign in methods

they were spotchy at best and i ended up having to switch sites twice just to get the files needed - and im not even sure if i have the right files yet lol

Component Choice and Scale Issues

Today, I was trying to get all my components into the schematic so I can start to do the math for all the voltages and other components needed and stuff like that. Easy right? Wrong. Finding the components was the easiest part(although there was a mixup with the battery pack where certain details weren’t listed so I had to message the seller). The hard part for today was figuring how to set a scale in the schematic. Obviously this is very important so I can set a size for my battery pack, but I couldn’t find anything anywhere for my software of choice. I am considering switching to KiCAD(after all, I just need to add a few components), but I’ll have to see what can be done about the scale stuff. If I can figure that out, the next step will be to add the other components necessary for function.

This is my first ever devlog! Quite exciting :D
anyways this is supposed to just be some git testing to make sure my repo is setup to be public and receive commits, im still not too sure how to do this with PCBs but ill figure it out