Ordered Parts, Assembled, and Tested

MicroDev128 Project

Quick recap:

I like the Arduino Nano but wow is it old. And outdated. And slow. And underpowered. So I put all my frustrations into making a board the same size (’cause trying to use a ESP32 on breadboard sucks when they are so thick) and waayyyyyyy more powerful. So then this thing was born. With a power regulator that can supply two times more current that my oscilloscope draws , mixed with the latest and greatest 8-bit AVR microcontrollers (not that 8-bit AVR microcontrollers are very new).

Sorry I haven’t devloged in a while so this is a lot of stuff in this devlog. This will say 1h 4min logged [because im really bad at remebering to devlog and I use my phone often that I can put Lookout on so I someone gets in the recordering I have to trash it :( ]

Day 1

I started by ordering parts from Digikey. I spend roughly 3 hours looking at part selections for the passives and LEDs.

Day 2

After the parts arrived I looked through the parts and then assebled one board. The caps placement was tricky because they all look the same size, so I’ll add a diagram to the Github repo in the future to make this easier.