This is part 1 of 2 on the rework needed on the control board for the Mini-Mecanum remote/autonomous vehicle project that I've been working on for quite a while. As I state early on in the video, I initially thought this would be a simple fix, but as things go with PCB design, it ended up being a mess and turns out to be a complete rerouting of the board.
I see a lot of KiCAD tutorials around but I thought that this would be more of an "in the field" lesson showing all the thoughts and frustration that go along with PCB prototyping. I still consider myself to be pretty new at this and there are probably a lot better ways to work this out or even plan ahead so later problems are a bit easier to deal with. I'll probably do more videos like this, which hopefully will show me learning more and developing better habits.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c1yr7HPHww
This is a short class topics review of the KiCad schematic editor. This is part 1 of 2 toward shipping off a simple PCB for manufacturing. Essentially a short version of the previous full length videos in this series.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhnvVu4wKAs
In CAD applications a user defined parameter is used to associate a definition to a value in a way to make the product easier modify by yourself in the future.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axpn1qvCIfk
This is the first "in the field" ringing issue that I've had the opportunity to observe and mess with.
Most addressable LED schematics have a resistor added in series with the data line, but I wanted to see what was actually happening and how various resistors would change the signal. The inductor was just an impromptu decision to practice some component theory and see how well I could sculpt a signal. For me, I think this turned out to be quite interesting.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vek4FflD2I