Designing and assembling my first PCB

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Tadas Vilkeliskis posts about making their first printed circuit board: About a couple months ago I purchased an Arduino Nano ESP32 dev board…Next was getting some peripherals so I ordered a small LCD and BME280 temperature/humidity sensor breakout boards. Both of these I was able to wire up to the ESP32 chip and get them to talk over the I2C protocol. I decided to create the BME280 sensor module. This would let me get a feel for what it takes to design something starting with schematics and ending up with a custom PCB. This experience gave me confidence that I can produce custom and working PCBs. This, of course, was a very simple project, but it took me through the whole process end-to-end. It gave me a better understanding of the steps I may need to take for more complex designs. Se