PCBs arrived. I cut the PCBs to size with my PCB Cutting machine and assembled the first dev board.
Incredibly, the PCB worked out of the box being recognized by the Segger JLink and driving the LCD! I was blown away. Unfortunately, the BLE didn't work. My educated guess would be a mismatched DEC1 and DEC2 capacitors where I put the incorrect values during BOM selection. Secondly, my antenna calculations were incorrect, and the two things combined invalidated the antenna functionality. I cannot see the BLE module from the android app. Definitely this design needs more work.
Nevertheless, the fact that my cold design on an MCU I've never seen and only cobbled together in my lunch break and over one weekend, cut in my garage and then worked out of the box is dabomb.
Well, as Richard Marcinko said, thanks God for backups! But that's for later.
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