simple-alarm(blare) Devlog 1

What I did

After 2 hours of messing around with my pcb and schematics I have finally completed the pcb and schematic!!!

Problems I’ve faced

I had issues many problems along the way (It was expected since this is my first ever pcb)

I ran into issues with the ratsnest or whatever the blue and red lines were. Pretty much I was following the guide and pressing X to connect pads to pads, but I eventually ran into issues as I created a mess. Blue lines couldn’t reach their final destination. I later figured out how to use via by press V whilst figuring the path.

Another issue I ran into was setting up kicad itself, I needed the kicad-library kicad-library-3d packages which I had missing. So I spent a while setting up kicad.

Future plans

I plan on deviating from the tutorial when I am building the 3d design for the alarm as I want to make it different from other projects, some of them were really interesting.

Closing thought

I am not 100% sure what programming language I need to use for this (I hope it’s not python)

I learned alot from this, I might continue making pcbs after this project, If I end up finishing it.

Any feedback is welcome! (please, I need it)