Digicron is an open-source printed circuit board by devicefuture, from the devicefuture/digicron repository on GitHub, published under the MIT licence. It is a 2-layer board of 36 × 38 mm with 56 parts on 94 nets, routed with 1,123 tracks and 92 vias.
It is built around the MDBT50Q-U1MV2, BME280 and HCMS-3917, with the ADXL345BCCZ-RL, RT9080-33GJ5 and 12401598E4#2A among its other parts. Its parts include 18 resistors, 9 connectors, 8 capacitors, 8 ICs and 4 diodes. It belongs with the nRF52 and nRF5x boards of this library.
--recurse-submodules must be used because this repo contains Git submodules which are used as libraries for the firmware and simulator.
Building
Before building the firmware for the first time, you will need to install the development dependencies:
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./build.sh --install-dev
To build the firmware and upload it to the target device over USB, run:
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./build.sh --upload
You can also check for compilation errors without uploading by removing the --upload flag.
To build the firmware and the simulator, run:
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./build.sh --sim
Then to run the simulator locally, you need to start a web server in this directory. You can run the following to start the web server at localhost:8000:
It measures 36 × 38 mm and has 2 copper layers, 1.6 mm thick.
What parts does the Digicron use?
56 parts, built around the MDBT50Q-U1MV2, BME280, HCMS-3917 and ADXL345BCCZ-RL. The full list of its parts is on this page, with links to each part's symbol and footprint where PCBKit's library has them.
Where can I download the Digicron KiCad files?
From the devicefuture/digicron repository on GitHub, at the commit this page was made from: the board is hardware/DigiCron.kicad_pcb and its schematic hardware/DigiCron.kicad_sch. PCBKit opens the board in the browser, with nothing to install.
Can I use the Digicron design in my own project?
Its repository publishes it under the MIT licence: you may reuse it on that licence's terms (keep the author's notice, and for a copyleft licence share your changes alike).
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