W00c0n Badge Production
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w00c0n 30 badge — RED top board production export
Production-intent two-board clamshell badge for w00c0n 30th anniversary: red top art board with inward-facing addressable LEDs and black bottom electronics/art board for JLCPCB turnkey assembly.
w00c0n 30 badge — BLACK bottom board production export
Production-intent two-board clamshell badge for w00c0n 30th anniversary: red top art board with inward-facing addressable LEDs and black bottom electronics/art board for JLCPCB turnkey assembly.
RED board production completion/export
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BLACK board production completion/export
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I’m blocked now because the account has no available ACUs, so I can’t continue executing tools or wait on the spawned board-completion threads.
Accomplished so far:
- Updated production docs to make the coin-cell/WS2812 voltage, runtime, firmware-cap, P-MOS fault-scope, and one-cell-reversed risks explicit blockers: Production Release Risk Review.
- Re-sourced/updated BOM metadata for the JLCPCB/LCSC parts and documented the audit: JLCPCB BOM Sourcing Audit.
- Updated the firmware, bring-up, stackup/alignment, project specification, and blocker notes with low-battery, validation, and per-board export side/orientation gates.
- Cloned the master into separate RED and BLACK production-export projects and started board-specific completion/export threads, but those did not finish before ACUs became unavailable.
Open items:
- Finish the RED and BLACK board-specific layout/export threads.
- Apply/import artwork and shared outline, or document exact tooling blockers.
- Place aligned standoff holes and correct component sides.
- Route both boards, run/fix ERC/DRC, and export separate JLCPCB Gerber/drill/BOM/CPL packs.
- Validate the CR2032/WS2812 voltage/runtime and parallel-cell fault behavior before any production-ready claim.
Manual export steps
Validation checklist
JLCPCB file list
Production warning notes
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Production 133x213 Layout Export Blocker
Latest authoritative requirements
- Final size revision supersedes 320 x 200 mm.
- Target board size: approximately 133 x 213 mm, portrait, about 1.33x original 100 x 160 mm.
- Both red/top and black/bottom boards must share the same scaled
front_outline.svgoutline and aligned standoff holes. - Bottom black-board art must be re-fetched from the corrected cache-busted sources only:
black_reference.png?v=fix2black_copper.svg?v=fix2black_silk.svg?v=fix2
- Corrected black art features verified in the active corrected-art flow: dendrites, robots/androids, lower-left raised fist, lower-right “ALTRUISTIC MERITOCRACY,” and no large
w00c0nwordmark. - Place 18 WS2812B-2020 LEDs on the red board underside aligned to the neuron nucleus, dendrite tips, and cutouts.
- Re-space electronics/components for the larger badge; route; run ERC/DRC; export separate JLCPCB Gerber/drill/BOM/CPL packs per board.
JLCPCB size note
A 133 x 213 mm single board is within typical JLCPCB single-PCB fabrication and SMT assembly size capability. Cost will increase versus the original 100 x 160 mm outline because area increases by about 1.77x. It is not expected to hit the previously researched large-board limit concerns for 320 x 200 mm.
Current project state observed
- Structured layout read succeeds only by explicit project reference.
- Active layout remains a single 160 x 100 mm default board with 69 components; all listed components are on the Top layer.
- Component bounding box is about 109.18 x 233.16 mm, indicating prior spread/placement is not a finished 133 x 213 production layout.
- It is not yet split into complete red/top-board and black/bottom-board manufacturing outputs.
Tooling blockers encountered
- Asset create/import failed repeatedly with generic unexpected errors / no project context.
- Board mutation failed:
missing project document context. - Placement agent failed:
No project context available. - Direct component placement mutation failed:
No project document context available. - DRC/check read by explicit project reference failed:
Project not found, although layout read by the same explicit project reference succeeds. - Because these mutations/checks are blocked, manufacturing exports were not generated.
Safe next action
Continue only in a project-scoped Flux session where layout mutation and asset import tools have project context. Do not export until the
?v=fix2 bottom art is imported/scaled, the shared 133 x 213 mm outline is applied to both boards, LEDs/components/standoffs are placed, routing is complete, and DRC/ERC gates are clean.Added production release blocker — coin-cell / LED rail validation
Independent review added a production-release blocker: the direct 2x CR2032 rail at the documented ~63 mA firmware-capped load is marginal for WS2812B-2020 voltage/current behavior and must not be called production-ready without prototype validation. Firmware brightness caps are operating limits, not hardware safety mechanisms. The release package must include measured VLED sag/ripple, LED behavior over cell life, low-battery firmware behavior, P-MOS voltage-drop verification, and parallel-cell fault analysis.
The existing P-MOS reverse-polarity stage should be treated as load-side reverse protection only unless proven otherwise; it does not inherently isolate one correctly installed cell from one reversed cell in a direct parallel CR2032 arrangement. If the badge allows user-replaceable cells, production approval requires per-cell isolation/current-limiting analysis or a documented mechanical/procedural mitigation.
2026-07-11 resume retry result
- Corrected bottom black art policy remains authoritative: only
black_copper.svg?v=fix2,black_silk.svg?v=fix2, andblack_reference.png?v=fix2; ignore stale/older black art and the largew00c0nwordmark. - Read-only docs and explicit layout summary were accessible; the live physical layout still appears as one 160 mm × 100 mm default board with 69 Top-layer components, not separate complete 133 mm × 213 mm red/black boards.
- Failed retries captured in the stackup/alignment note: DRC explicit read
Project not found; asset readNo project context available; asset create unexpected error; board mutationmissing project document context; placement agentNo project context available; deterministic LED layer moveNo project document context available. - Export remains intentionally blocked: DRC/ERC gate cannot be run and required layout mutations cannot be applied from this thread.
Latest authoritative requirements
JLCPCB size note
Current project state observed
Tooling blockers encountered
Safe next action
Added production release blocker — coin-cell / LED rail validation
2026-07-11 resume retry result
