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Love it but:

>There is no schematic for this project since there were very few components and it was easy enough to just draw a PCB.

You should really draw one. As someone who works in hardware engineering, the amount of times this has come back to bite someone in the butt is immense.



I forgot that it was even possible to draw a PCB without starting from a schematic.

I guess it's probably somehow possible with the tools I use, but I always thought of it as something only done with some crazy ancient app that doesn't even do schematics.


I suppose he has the file used to print the PCB which is “kind” of schematic-like.


“CAD is Master” is really famous last words of a lot of builds.

But that being said, fair point. The PCB file is sufficient in this case.


As someone with no experience in that field, why is that? Is a PCB file too low-level and would be like posting assembly/executable code instead of the source of a program?


In a simple system the PCB is enough to figure it out, even if you have to deduce what each soldered component was.l - like a simple soduku.

A large complex CAD or PCB system will have thousands of pieces and parts and it would take much longer to work out which each actually was. A PCB doesn’t tell you what is soldered on the holes (though sometimes it’ll have R23 telling you it was the 23rd resistor, but not the values, etc).




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