Edd Mann

My First PCB Design: Prototyping an Electronic Chessboard

Jul 22, 2025

In this post, I share my journey designing and prototyping my first PCB: a scaled-down electronic chessboard using an ESP32-S3, hall sensors, and WS2812 (NeoPixel) LEDs. I cover the motivations, design decisions, schematic and PCB layout challenges, and lessons learned while validating key concepts before scaling up to a full 8x8 board.

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Bridging the Gap Between Android Native Functionality and JavaScript Web Applications

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Bridging the Gap Between iOS Native Functionality and JavaScript Web Applications

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