Pico Chess Card

Spent some time doing the following:

• Added a pull-up resistor for PSYNC
• Added TP pad for PGOOD
• Ran DRC, fixed the pinheader connector
• Ordered the board
  *** btw I gained this time yesterday but I was just too busy to devlog

FINALLY FINISHED ROUTING + DRC CHECK!!
I also rendered this to showcase lol
Routing this time was kinda easy and I really love how straightforward the hardware is, but I think the challenge might be mainly the software side DAMN

Almost finished routing everything!!! This was actually much easier than I thought, might because there were barely any peripherals except the SPI
I alos replaced replaced the buttons to the one i used for the tic tac toe business card, hope it works better lol

Spent almost an hour and a half routing the RP2040 cluster
This time was pretty easy cuz there’s barely any peripherals to route, and the main focus is definitely the screen connector rather than anything else

Just a couple things I did

• Finalized the schematic
• Positioned the PCB
• Designed the card size

Added NFC feature and imported the footprints!!!

Roughly finished the schematic!!!

• RP2040 cluster
• NFC
• E-paper Screen
• nrf24l01 (not added yet

DAMNNNNNNNN I MESSED UP THE SCHEMATIC!!!! SO I gotta spend the past hour rerouting everything especially for some reason my schematic and PCB layout disconnected :(
Anyway here’s the final result!!!

Completed the routing for the screen module!!! btw I also rendered this

Assigned footprint (and fixed some capacitor issues :) and let’s get start routing our first screen module!!!

Let’s begin our journey towards the chess card!! Well first of all the most important thing here is the screen

• Drew the schematic for the screen module
• Imported symbols from EasyEDA
• Picked FPC-05FB-24PH20