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PCB Design - Bottom PCB - Initial Design

A project log for LED Cubular - LED Desktop Cube

Arduino based; 6 PCBs all with 64 LEDs on the outer face to form a li-po powered cube of 384 LED coolness!

jack-flynnJack Flynn 03/04/2019 at 16:242 Comments

For the initial design of the Bottom PCB I restricted myself to a 2 layer PCB. It's quick and dirty and really it should be a 4 layer so that I can offload power and ground to the internal layers. However, for an initial design and prototype I think it'll work. The Bottom PCB is the "Brains" of the project. It has the following features;

Arduino compatible ATMega328P

4 x Panel Connectors for the side panels - 1 of these can be used with an ICSP programmer to burn the Arduino Bootloader to the ATMega328P.

IMU - LSM9DS1TR - for orientation tracking i2c accelerometer, gyroscopes and magnetometer

LiPo JST Battery connector with charging chip and 5v Boost - based on Adafruit 500 Powerboost

Max 7219 LED Driver for 64 LEDs. Communication via an SPI-similar bus.

And on the back side we have the 64 SMD 0805 LEDs and exposed pads for pogo pins to allow for charging and reprogramming.

Discussions

Gerben wrote 03/05/2019 at 14:15 point

Clever; reusing one of the headers for ISP programming.

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Jack Flynn wrote 03/05/2019 at 20:56 point

Thanks! Not going to lie, that was one of my favourite little design quirks that feels super useful 

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