Mini Retro TV Design


Placement is now sensible: USB on the bottom edge, display header at the top, Hall sensors in a lower equal-pitch row, mounting holes in corners, and ESP32 at the right edge with antenna overhang. I’m routing next; the antenna overhang may remain as a deliberate outside-board DRC note.
The targeted manual routing pass created manufacturing-rule problems instead of converging cleanly, so I’m rolling those traces back to preserve the clean placement. I’ll leave the board placed and document routing as the remaining open item rather than leaving bad copper in the design.
continue please
Created a project doc

PCB Layout Notes — Mini Retro TV

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Placement is complete on a compact 80 mm × 55 mm Standard 2 Layer board. Routing is not complete; an attempted manual routing pass was rolle...
Placed the 80 × 55 mm 2-layer PCB with the requested USB, display, Hall-row, battery, power, button, piezo, mounting-hole, and ESP32 antenna-edge priorities; details are in PCB Layout Notes.
Open item: routing is still pending — I rolled back the manual routing attempt because it created copper-rule violations, leaving the clean placed board with airwires instead of bad traces.
Suggested next steps: use a full-board routing pass from this placement, or approve a slightly larger board (e.g. 85 × 60 mm) if you want more routing margin before manufacturing.
Route and review
Run full routing
Try larger board
Fix routing issues
Check antenna keepout

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