The beginning of 2023 marked ten years of me making printed circuit boards. From Eagle to Altium, through hole to QFN, one layer FR4 with no soldermask to 8 layers with exotic cores, it's been a fun ride! I hope to keep making cool stuff in the years to come.

Here are some blanks of my favorite PCB's that I've made and kept over the years.

I made my first PCB in 2012 when I was still in grad school. The PCB was designed to be a clone of an RFID card. Shortly after that I made a small adapter PCB to use a BusPirate to program the cards. You can see these in the bottom left of the picture.

My first “real design” (as I felt, at least) was the DoorProgrammer. The project was to allow access control for one of the old WREK studios. It was my first project where I designed the PCB, assembled the board, wrote and programmed the firmware, and wrote the software to communicate with it.