I have a confession to make. I created the state PCB for TMD-3 directly in the KiCad PCB editor without creating a schematic first. This is pretty easy to do. Of course I had to turn off DRC to accomplish thus but hey I figured I was saving myself some time. Wrong.

I missed introducing a small trace when converting the bus connectors to standard .1 inch headers and inadvertently crossed the S2 and S3 lines. Took me a while to find the problem that a netlist and DRC would have probably caught.
Fortunately the boards could be salvaged with a delicate but doable trace cut.
Lesson learned.
Discussions
Become a Hackaday.io Member
Create an account to leave a comment. Already have an account? Log In.
It still sounds impressive to create a PCB without a schematic and only have 1 error.
Are you sure? yes | no