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A salesperson never reveals the final product..

I use a 3k6 or 3k3 for the CLR to get it a little brighter, but you can easily see it through. It's my default for indicators now. Makes boxing at least 15% more enjoyable. If you have a mask layer item, then it works as an inverse, taking away the mask in that location. It also means that...

Now, it's time to order at JLCPCB (or your vendor of choice). Nothing special to do, I would recommend doing a thinner PCB than normal (0.8 or 1mm), and putting in a comment to ignore the connectivity because it'll fail a default check (there's no copper layer after all).

You can review the faceplate and see that it's got the same image on the back and front: If you just took the font mask footprint and changed the layer by flipping it, then it'd be mirrored and wouldn't align up with the image on the other side. You can also just make a circle or square on...

Want a nifty faceplate with an LED which shines though? Here's how I create faceplates for my builds.. There are probably much better approaches (take Bolt Audio as an example, not sure how he's doing those but they're really nice and uniform in intensity). My approach is to try to make it as...

This is a mainstay on my board. Stacks very nicely with an OD-1 in front of it.

I can’t believe nobody mentioned “probing the bottom”..

It does. If you standardise board size, then you could have 80% of the edge cuts done by component.

I create my own footprint and symbol for IO. As an example, here is my main board IO (IO1). I also included some edge cuts because it's standard. Then I just connect a label to the network and it'll all hook up as needed.

Nice one @cooder ! New relay board?

History has shown us slavery evolves as each form is eroded by the education of the public. Slavery through force, religion, feudalism, indebted servitude, capitalism.. it's all the same in a different form. It all comes to an inflection point when those in power push too far for having mode...

Yeah. You just have to build your symbol library and keep an eye on things when they change.

The symbol is pretty much irrelevant. What’s important is the footprint matches the part you will use.

Nice contribution, thanks! It should be mentioned that 0402 is fine to use as long as you keep an eye on the power rating. JST connectors are an ease-of-life changer for me. So much easier to build and test. I settled onto 1x5 headers (9v,In,Gnd,Sw,Out) to fit better with relay IO use.