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I Made a Wemos D1 Mini Dev Board

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Re: I Made a Wemos D1 Mini Dev Board

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Post by Rebelgecko »

argulane wrote: post #2

Building such dev board shields/carrier boards is a nice beginner friendly way to get into electronics and pcb design.

I'm starting to get into it (I just ordered some tweaked versions of the Airgradient PCB, which also uses the D1 Mini). I had kind of a realization like "oh wait, just because something is a PCB doesn't mean you have to use tiny surface mount components"

What are some of the typical tool people use? I used EasyEDA because the board I was modifying was already in their system and their coupon made ordering the PCBs basically free (I think I'm paying $3 for 5 PCBs + shipping). However that software felt a bit unpolished, are there better alternatives? (granted, most of the EE software I've used feels rough, looking at you Xilinx)

Re: I Made a Wemos D1 Mini Dev Board

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Post by bobsmooth »

cronix wrote: post #8
adolph wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is a really nice minimal package with maximal software. I recently hooked one up to an 8x8 panel of WS2812 rgb LEDs and then found the WLED ecosystem which installs directly from browser ( https://install.wled.me/ ) and has a web/mobile app front end to control the array, accept button inputs, integrate with iot home stuff. 1. Flash D1 mini from browser via USB 2. Solder 3 wires (5v+, ground, data) 3. Power up D1…

Yes, but they're going away from 8266 and going to ESP32. They've already dumped support for the audio reactive version due to low processing power of the 8266. There are ESP32's in D1 Mini form factor.

Support for the 8266 is going to be maintained for the main branch. It's still plenty powerful for running up to 1k leds.

Re: I Made a Wemos D1 Mini Dev Board

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Post by jamesmunns »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #11
argulane wrote: post #2

Building such dev board shields/carrier boards is a nice beginner friendly way to get into electronics and pcb design.

I'm starting to get into it (I just ordered some tweaked versions of the Airgradient PCB, which also uses the D1 Mini). I had kind of a realization like "oh wait, just because something is a PCB doesn't mean you have to use tiny surface mount components" What are some of the typical tool people use? I used EasyEDA because the board I was modifying was already in their system and their coupon made ordering the PCBs ba…

KiCad is a really excellent tool, usable for a pretty wide set of use cases, even professionally if you don't need a specific tool like antenna design or complex high speed trace matching.

All of the low and high code board houses will support either kicads project formats directly, or kicad supports standard Gerber format export.

Re: I Made a Wemos D1 Mini Dev Board

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Post by pantalaimon »

bobsmooth wrote: post #13
cronix wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but they're going away from 8266 and going to ESP32. They've already dumped support for the audio reactive version due to low processing power of the 8266. There are ESP32's in D1 Mini form factor.

Support for the 8266 is going to be maintained for the main branch. It's still plenty powerful for running up to 1k leds.

GCC will forever be stuck at version 5.4 for this though
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