Devlog #3

Final Routing and New Silkscreen

What have I made so far?

So, these are small changes, but they are important. Here are the things I made:

Added a button — Yeah, I know it’s nothing special, but on this small board, it was challenging. But I made it! The button is made for classic usage — nothing special.
Final PCB routing — So, I want to get closer to getting the PCB fabricated, which means I have to do a final inspection. For this, I used Claude AI and some Reddit stuff, and yeah, I can actually recommend using AI for inspecting PCBs, mainly Claude. When you set the thinking level to Max, it can find errors that you would probably never notice. I found around 5 problems, but they weren’t anything too complicated — mainly some incorrectly placed vias.
Silkscreen — This is one of my favourite parts of making a PCB because I can do crazy stuff and add something that was made by me. I also added the pin names to both the top and bottom of the PCB, so you don’t have to look at the pinout documentation every time.

So, the end of this first version is almost here, and there are only a few things left to do:

Documentation — Because it’s open source, it needs good documentation. I actually don’t like this part, but I have to do it :). I also want to make something like a pinout image showing what every pin can do.
Ship it — After all of this, I want to ship the project and ask Hack Club for funding because, yeah, it’s a little expensive. (Not too much, but I want to get the PCBs manufactured and assembled.)

So, I think that’s all. If you have any questions or ideas, you can leave them in the comments, and I hope I’ll see you in the next Devlog.

I know it doesn’t look like I spent much time on this, but Hackatime was down, so I couldn’t track my time.

Love u

Below, you can see the PCB 3D render, and you can see my beautiful silkscreen :3