I don't doubt that it works. But it will work because modern components are really forgiving. And can work even when the design is bad. Just look at PDN of the Arduino Uno :)
But for this thing, I have so many open questions. Like what was the person making this board thinking? Even if its pure LLM slop, they still made the pictures and the crowd-supply campaign.
@cccpresser given then BOM and the price on CrowdSupply, I would think they just want to get some money from this.. there's obviously no love in this project
@janamarie I am wondering if there is a review process at crowd supply. And how it works.
All projects I have seen there in the past were either good or excellent.
This one is the first clear outlier I am aware of.
@cccpresser @janamarie there is! and it’s included a “send crowdsupply a working prototype” step both times I’ve been involved in a project, so I’m kinda confused about this project.
(I was intending on emailing CS and asking when the project last got discussed on fedi, but adhd..)
@ErinRose @janamarie I just reached out to them.
Depending on the result, I will write about it on fedi.
@ErinRose @janamarie I also opened a ticket on github.
I am not sure what I expected.. but the answer is not really helping
https://github.com/T76-org/drpd/issues/284#issuecomment-6856766031
(There is also a 2nd ticket asking about the full source files. That one is still open)
@cccpresser @ErinRose not to be an asshole here, but
"We placed the components on a grid to make the board easier to understand and to make individual parts easier to reference when discussing the design. Similarly, we chose the largest SMD components we could find for each role and left plenty of space between them."
makes it very clear that no EE person or person who has any interest in EE has designed this board
Nov 13, 2026, 10:58 PM@janamarie @cccpresser @ErinRose that reply reads like obvious claudese to me