Repository: https://github.com/ca-hu/HackweekGeekoPCB

Description

Let's create a soldering kit for a Wearable LED Geeko Badge!

Goals

Let's create a soldering kit for a Wearable LED Geeko Badge that:

• contains an electronic circuit board in geeko shape with nice colors
• has LEDs and electronic parts that can be soldered on by soldering beginners
• looks nice and can be worn as blinking badge

I loved the hackweek "train of thought" logo and I want it as a wearable badge with LED lights. If we can't make this, then a random geeko is also fine.

Why?

To teach kids and your friends how to solder while also promoting SUSE ;)

How?

• Do I know how to do that? - no
• Did I ever did that before? - no
• Does it contain AI? - yes, not sure how, but yes
• How does it help you become a better engineer? - I bet you never used KiCAD (at least I did not) and you need to know your hardware to be able to enable it I heard
• How does it relate to your job? - after that I know how to make a "setenforce 1" badge so that I can promote people to use SELinux

Resources

Example of the concept and how it usually looks like: https://github.com/blinkyparts/unicorn

Update

Day 1: Spent a long time cleaning up a png and transforming it to svg, only to discover that there is a SVG version. Then, created SVG layers. Added the mapping between the SVG layers and the PCB layers and exported with svg2map. Finally imported into KICAD.

Day 2: Created the schematics and the PCB in KICAD. Created the wiring. Added a hanger and some fixes to the design. Ordered the PCB proof of concept at a manifacturer and LEDs and other parts.

Done!