Scooter Y

For this I added 2 lapse projects. The first one was meant to only be the start of the routing, but due to some lapse bugs, that one came afterwards thus why I have one big one. After designing the schematic, I spent about 2.2 hours routing the whole board. Most of the board was quite simple to route. There definitely was a lot of overlap on traces, and could definitely be improved upon at a future date.

Surprisingly, routing the USB-C was a lot easier than usual. Usually, I get weird overlap issue with the D+ and D-, but this time around it worked perfectly fine. I think the issue was that before I was using a weird ESD IC which caused it to flip 2 times, which in-tern screwed it up.

Also, routing the FPC cable was easier than I though. Like half the connections just went to ground which was goated!

Overall, routing this took a lot quicker than I expected, and I really enjoyed routing this!

Changelog

• Finally finished routing the whole board!
• Continued routing the PCB

Pretty much finished the schematic. I made the whole power boosting circuit for the e-ink display. I needed to bump by 3.3V voltage to close to 15V to be able to drive it. This circuit was pretty hard since there were a lot of high voltage parts and it all needed to go correctly, but after some time + some looking over from gemini, I got it in a working state!

On top of this, I finished the USB-C parts placement, and the NAND flash since the RP2040 doesn’t have an integrated one. I also added 4 buttons for WASD to explore the device.

Started working on my schematic for my e-ink badger! I started off by using Gemini to help me figure out what parts I should be using, and I decided on using the RP2040 along with a waveshare e-ink display with a 24 pin FPC cable, and started the usb stuff.

I mostly worked on researching components and all of that.

Finished the board routing finally! Worked on the power routing, and buzzer routing!

Finished routing the IMU today, all I have left is pretty much the power rails which could be the hardest tbh. Also, most of the random IC’s have been placed down.

Continued routing my board. Like 80% done, and made the board like 3.5mm smaller which is huge! Had to move some pyro stuff around for it to happen.

I’m migrating this from Reboot, but tldr:

I worked on researching different IC’s to use and different method’s for pyro-channels. I used AI to help me build 1/2 circuits though everything will be cross-referencing to make sure the AI is providing accurate data. I used lapse to record half of my time, but when I tried to pause/un-pause, I didn’t realize that it stopped screen sharing, so I lost about an hour of it. Afterwards, I spent about an hour routing this on my board, and got about 1/4 of the way done!

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