Heya,

I saw someone else post their KiCAD design here for review. Now I would like to ask what improvements could be done with mine. I read a lot of documentation and followed many a YT tutorial the past two weeks and I am by no means experienced with PCBs or even many aspects of microelectronics aside from PC building.

I know that the data line from the USB C connector could wind up being a source of trouble because of the lengths. Is there anything here I could do?

I can only upload single images for posts, so I’ll try putting another one in the comments that shows the generalized layout of the right keyboard.

Peace and love

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    1 day ago

    OK, that reassures me.

    I’ll get to swapping the caps for bigger ones though I do like the challenge of soldering them.

    The spirally tracks/flourishes I added simply because of looks. No intentional RF stuff going on here. I have the track smoothing plugin installed and felt bad about not using it. Besides, the switch goes directly to ground here so having a bit of “cable salad” probably won’t do any harm, I could even draw a little Tux on the board if I were so inclined…

    Thank you by the way!