#electronics #KiCad #maker #robotics #perfboard

My first KiCad PCB(actually on perfboard)  

I finally arranged all components and routed them on perfboard.
Some I put underneath others, cool. Turned out to be more compact than expected.

I hope it is all good, and I will be able to solder it tomorrow.

Btw #KiCad pcb thing is much more comfortable and smart/automatic than schematic. I liked it. Although speicifically perfboard optimized workflow would be convenient.

I designed it as a pcb with 2.54mm grid and many layers, and routing though things, ignoring many rules.
As this wonderful [Arduino forum post suggested](https://forum.arduino.cc/t/perfboard-circuit-design-with-kicad/1283999)

Btw free space to the left is left for debug probe. IDK if to port airfrog to pico 2w(I have it) or other esp32. (esp32-c3 super mini I bought, wifi did not work, even with antenna mod)

Now is eepy time.
[source code](https://github.com/XLNC-APEX/WRO_FE_2026_NATIONAL/tree/main/hardware/schematics)

#electronics #diy_electronics #perfboard #AdviceNeeded

Is that dangerously close? Should I compromise on compactness to add 1 pin spacing(gives a bit more room for routing)? I do not want to.

Or should I just put isolation tape in between  

P.S: Ignore that unbeatiful soldering. I did it like year ago, with awful solder and they were my first solder ~victims~ jobs. Now, I do it leadless and shiny btw.

When you sketch a circuit with solder and tinned wire, you are already building it !

#79 #SystemsThatMatter #PerfBoard

When building electronics project for permanent use - i.e. after testing on a solderless breadboard - you normally go to a #soldered perforated board of some type as a #prototype, or even for very-low-volume production.

There are different types of boards. I dislike "matrix" boards, which are just isolated pads on a grid, i.e. there are no connections between any of them. Some people swear by these; I swear at them.

I prefer protoboards that have multiple holes per pad (so you can connect multiple component leads without having to add an explicit wire jumper). If they've also got #busses - sets of pads that run the whole length or width of the board - so much the better!

Some are #crap: laminated paper PCBs where the pads lift off the board if you even try to desolder something you added. Row/column labels missing, or (like I found with some recently) that don't line up between the front and back of the board 😆 , or most egregiously, they don't actually show the pad pattern on the front of the board, so you have to keep flipping it to check your parts are correctly placed. One example below.

I have some from "BusBoard Prototype Systems" that I like. The SB4 is a 38 x 24 (912 hole) board that is #snappable into quarters. Two of the quarters have rows that are 4-hole, 2-hole, 4-hole. The other two are 5 2-hole pads. Both types have a single bus running along each of the 2 long sides.

But ...

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#electronics #hobby #ProtoBoard #PerfBoard #MatrixBoard #Chinesium