SPOILER ALERT. If you want to take “the Unconnected Challenge”, don’t read the comments! Someone has identified the correct issue and posted it (already!)

Great video! If you are using OpenGL or Cairo in KiCAD, under the route tab at the top, you can tune track length to exactly the same length. Not always necessary but I like the look of the squiggly lines.

Great channel buddy, lovin it.

Thanks, very helpful!

will you design triangular wireless breadboards to go with your Pyramiduino-design as well ;-)

So, how can I plug that into a breadboard?

Don't you have bottom layer silk screen signs mirrored right now? :)

@AddOhms

6 жыл бұрын

I had to re-do the capture for backside I/O pins. I had some silk on the back already when I did that. :)

Hello, your pin *spoiler* isn't properly connected to the arduino chip try rerouting it and remaking the via, worked for me, kicad now show 0 unconnected wire, Thanks for your vid always relaxing to see someone else routing a pcb :p *spoiler* : D4 was the pin that wasn't connected

@AddOhms

6 жыл бұрын

Good eye. ;)

@AddOhms

6 жыл бұрын

Lol. :)

@camilienbeaudoin7907

6 жыл бұрын

Trying to help keeping some challenge :p

Whilst keeping the board triangular, I think it would have been an idea to mount the board vertically onto headers, so it would fit into a standard DIP socket. Then you could have called it the "Sharkduino". Those headers are going to be a problem if you don't exclude the plastic support material, or file them so they fit.

@AddOhms

6 жыл бұрын

I left the headers to show a mistake in the next video. By the time I was done with the design, I realized, I didn't need to design-in any extra mistakes. At least it'll make a more realistic assembly/turn-on video.

Can you do autoroute on KICAD? I'm sure you can

@AddOhms

5 жыл бұрын

Probably. I don't use auto-routers.

Iluminaduino :D

Nachoduino!

your headers overlap, which means that they won't fit!

@AddOhms

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, there's going to be some dremel sanding in my future.

Your regulator has a bad footprint SOT23-5 pin 4 and 5 are unconnected. That may be your issue.

@AddOhms

6 жыл бұрын

Nope. Pin 4 is a NC. (On adjustable regs it is the sense pin.) Pin 5 is connected, its the output.

why would they chose "0.1°" as the unit? thats so -pointless- strange. Either normal degrees or maybe arc minutes(though thats more of an astronomy thing). but 0.1 degrees is completly pointless, never seen that as a unit used before.

@AddOhms

6 жыл бұрын

Me either. I’m sure there is a reason, I just don’t know what it is. Which is what I find with KiCad as a whole. Some things you just have to accept.

@jort93z

6 жыл бұрын

That is true. I have not worked on PCB's all that much, but i have tried out kicad and i thought some things are quite unintuitive.

@AddOhms

6 жыл бұрын

Rabid open source advocates will scream at this statement, but I feel it is true. KiCad represents the best and worst of open source software. It is a great example because it is incredibly powerful. Feature-wise it is a rich CAD tool. It has a passionate community behind it. And despite some bugs, it works. (And why I keep coming back to it.) For the price, I think it is worth learning and using. I will say that once you learn the keyboard shortcuts, the schematic editor/capture program is good. I can draw schematics very quickly with it now, with minimal fuss.

blurry

@AddOhms

4 жыл бұрын

Change your quality setting