With revision 0.2 came some victories and some defeats. The audio system "worked", although the quality was quite bad. I chose an i2c flash and DAC chip, not realizing that the speed of that protocol was much too low for audio (<400kbps). I had to downsample my already low 8khz bandwidth audio track to <4khz, which resulted in a lot of distortion. To address this, I’ve chosen new parts, each now using SPI. As a matter of fact, the flash chip was the wrong choice anyway because it was a 3.3V part and my board runs on 5V. Oops.
I redesigned the whole board with smaller footprints, replacing the 1206 passives with 0603 for more flexibility and reduced size.
I also dropped the circular form factor for now, as it was an inefficient use of space. Once I finalize the circuit, I’ll decide on a final form factor and do a more thorough route.
I've sent the board to fab, and it should be in some time next week.
The project’s Github repo is now public! Check it out here: https://github.com/Aliasmk/NoEye-Haptic-Clock
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