Time to Design!

The design of the boards is painfully simple. As all the components of our boards are small development boards with their own power regulators and level shifters, all we need to do is just connect the dots.

The design has some flaws we plan to correct in the following versions, but we didn’t want to miss the submit date for the HackaDay 2018 price and we order them without double checking a few things.

Working with Kicad was an experience itself, I personally expected it to be a little bit more user friendly, but once you get how to work with it is no so complex. Looking at the schematic and PCB layout you can see there is no need for any special feature. It is just really basic stuff.

The PCBs are simple 2 layer boards without any special flavor.

Delivery

We were running out of time to have prototypes working by the end of the month, so… the boards were ordered with express shipping. It hurts deeply in the pocket when the priority shipping costs 10 times more than the boards.