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ofrzetatoday at 4:20 AM1 replyview on HN

This is great. One of my goals is "create my own ESP32 PCB" however I am lacking the knowledge to do so. I was hoping to get some help by an LLM but people here said it's not that great in PCB layout. Still I will try Kicad with MCP :)

Sure I am willing to learn but I need a more efficient path than a complete EE degree. I guess you can get quite far with a reference design but I understood that there's a lot to learn about ground layers, trace widths and so on.


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aaronmdjonestoday at 4:26 AM

A substantial portion of the things you need to know about layout are summarised quite nicely in the 4 YouTube videos in a previous comment of mine

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549063

Note that the audio in the first video doesn't start until 40 seconds in.