Howdy folks, as you can tell from the prototype from the previous post, all the software and hardware setup is complete. the circuit worked many times over and over without any errors. I have only ever made one circuit board and honestly, that was more a showpiece than an actual circuit but this time I decided to read up on a few pages and after searching for a day or two I managed to find two programs that seemed to work well. One was Kicad which was really intuitive and full of features that I might use in the future. The other was Eagle by Autodesk. This program was complicated but had a few tools that made 80% of the process I needed for this project automated. Either one could have been good but I decided to use both as one can import the other and both can export Gerber files which is what I needed to get my board physically made. Here is the rendering of the board.

The Credit buttons are on the sides next to the Nixie tubes so I had to make spaces on each side. There is also the fact that the Nixies are in reverse since I wanted to flush mount the nixie tubes, so I decided to have all the components except them on the other side.
I will get specs for the space and verify that the board will fit in but so far they look good enough to fit in there. Should have this up and running real soon and then another item on the list is taken care of. Enjoy.

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Filed under: Arcade,Electrical,Hardware,Microcontroller,Raspberry Pico - @ February 14, 2023 8:46 pm