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Designing of PCBs for ESPboy modules

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romansRomanS 01/31/2022 at 20:142 Comments

To date, quite a few prototype expansion modules have been developed for ESPboy. There are almost 30 so far. The prototypes are fine-tuned, both the hardware part and the software part. All prototypes are made on breadboards to date. It's time to make the factory PCBs! 

For a start, I made three

1. CC1101 for ESPboy Sub1Ghz inspector and ESPboy scanner

2. LORA for ESPboy LORA up to 8km offgrid messenger

3. Weather station for ESPboy weather station :)

Ordered the fabrication on easyeda. After the tests, all circuits and boards will be available for ordering at EasyEda.com, and probably also available for purchase at Tindie.com

Discussions

RomanS wrote 02/01/2022 at 12:30 point

Great! I think in two or three weeks I will complete the tests and will be able to offer for purchase the first ready-made modules or alternatively you can order the PCB on easyeda or pcbway yourself and solder the parts from Aliexpress according to the instructions. Experimenting with modules is the basic idea of the whole ESPboy project :)

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Andy Piper wrote 01/31/2022 at 23:46 point

this is awesome. I tried to build a weather module but wasn’t very successful so I look forward to trying this.

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