Witchdoc59

Witchdoc59

I’ve been interested in Electronics for many years. In fact as an 11 year old boy my parents gave me thier old clock radio. Not really knowing what the hell I was doing I started poking around in it with a welding rod. (Yeah, connected to mains) The fear of god was put in me when the rod shorted something out. Lots of sparks and smoke. I put the radio back together and much to my surprise it had started working again. My parents used it for a few more years after that. A couple years ago someone gave me a box ful of electronic components. I started studying electronics about that time and at one point I was introduced to the venerable 555 timer. I build a simple led flasher on a breadboard and that was cool. Then I found a 556 chip. I learned that this was 2 555s in one chip. So I modified my simple led flasher to flash 2 leds. The circuit is designed to trigger the second led when the first one fires. So the two leds alternate and with a potentiometer it is variable. Then I come to learning KiCAD. I decided to create a PCB for my 556 circuit. Well it’s been a week of serious frustration. Fix one thing and something else breaks. For a few days I’ve had a schematic that passed all the ERCs. A couple days ago I managed to get total schematic parity. But it was only this morning when I finally got ALL the ERC to complete on the PCB with no errors, no warnings.