12/9/2025 2:54 PM - Created Schematic!!

It lowk took a while because some of the guide stuff didn't make super sense to me but eventually got it!! I def didn't know the organizational tools that the guide went thru for this project like the custom labels and boxing stuff and all that which you can see from my experience on the KPad which was very bad organizationally. Here's an image of my schematic!! Was fun to learn the new tools and doing the schematic for this gave me some ideas for future projects!!

12/9/2025 2:58 PM - Routed and finished the PCB design

Wait this genuinely took so long because i kept having to change stuff and redo a lot. One thing I wanted to do was a diagonal chip because lowk that looks cool but it kinda cooked my routing. This is my first major experience in routing and lord it took so long and I was so bad at it but im getting better!! I'm not actually sure if all of this works if someone wants to look over it but yeah. the ground fill thing is cool but i think a lot of my grounds were sectioned off so i had to rewire a lot to get all of them connected up properly.

12/9/2025 4:20 PM - Silkscreen design!!

Since my name starts with K, I made a logo using the code geass logo that sorta looks like a K and put that on the board. I absolutely love those pics of circuit boards with cool easer eggs so i kinda made that part of the design here and put a bunch of text with those kinda quotes!!

Additionally just added a little cyberpunk kinda mention in with a little megacorp certified and logo on front!!

12/9/2025 4:24 PM - Final Project??!!

Here's some final pictures!!:

I think I'm pretty much done but I'll probably maybe end up making a v2 later..? or maybe a badusb made based off the same thing maybe with an sd card and no gpio so it can be much smaller and some kind of system to have both usb c and usb a?

12/10/2025 6:46 PM - Redid ground connections + Explanations

I redid a bunch of my ground connections because they were lowk super messy and not done great so first i deleted all the previous random ground traces and the fill

and then i found the sectioned off areas for ground fills

for example, this gnd was pretty close to another wire so i changed the orientation so the fill could properly get it

and then changed some of the traces to fit them closer and allow more space for the fill and i often used vias where they weren't needed before so fixed that. also realized a lot of the traces were lowk just weird and inefficient so fixed that and looks kinda cleaner:

becomes:

after that there were still a few areas that weren't properly connected via ground so i did those manually

had to run DRC a few times to check and make sure that i didnt miss any ratlines and then had to add some extra routes for ground to make sure the thermal relief drc errors didnt pop up

finally, i think i should be good and i think this looks better than the previous versions, some of the ground lines are a little wacky but it should work!! just need to update the readme with new pics and all and good!!

12/10/2025 6:47 PM - note i forgot

forgot to add on previous journal that the rest of the drc things are just silkscreen warnings that don't matter too much so it should be chill i think

12/10/2025 7 PM - realized i was using an old copy

so lowk realized fsr it was using an old copy..? so had to redo some of the silkscreen and delete some because on my other copy i removed the capacitor and resistor silkscreen and added some design but that got deleted so just readded it minus some of the back ones just bc i felt like it was too much