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Calcifer's New Heart

A devboard but in the shape of calcifer

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Jocelyn Lau Jocelyn Lau 🚀 added to the journal ago

Added the rest of the footprints

I originally thought I had to make my own footprints, so I spent a lot of time looking at the datasheets. Then I thought to ask people if I could just find the footprints on KiCAD and I did.

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Jocelyn Lau Jocelyn Lau 🚀 added to the journal ago

Added footprints

I assigned footprints for all of the basic parts like capacitors and resistors using SMD plates.
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Looked through JLCPCB LCSC to figure out what parts to use.

Jocelyn Lau Jocelyn Lau 🚀 added to the journal ago

Breaking out the I/O headers

Added labels to all of the unlabeled headers
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Spread them all out into connector pins
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Organized and tidied up the schematic by adding boxes to separate each section.
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Crystal Oscillator and Flash Storage

Added the crystal oscillator part to the schematic which vibrates very precisely and acts as a clock signal.
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Added flash storage to schematic. This uses SPI communication with the MCU being the master and the flash being the slave.
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Jocelyn Lau Jocelyn Lau 🚀 added to the journal ago

Started following tutorial

I created the project in KiCAD and started following the tutorial. I added the MCU to the schematic and I also added power decoupling and a USB C port.

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Jocelyn Lau Jocelyn Lau 🚀 started Calcifer's New Heart ago