Hi, I just finished my first pcb, Its a attiny board with a regulator a transistor and a connection to my sensor and motor (just wire pads)

but, When i plug it in, The led does turn on, however the programmer gives no respond when i connect it to my circuit's ISP! (It has an ATtiny13a, which i have a dip version in my breadboard and it works great!)

the connections sound fine to my with eye! I etched two of my tracks which i fixed with an led wire(multimeter reads 0ohms when i connect them! so it works) and i tried every single pin of my attiny with another and none of them give anything less then 10MOhm, and read 2ohms-0ohms to my isp connections(OFC checking each pin with the one it's supposed to connect to, MOSI to MOSI etc)

here's a picture of my circuit! both eagle schematic and physical!

EDIT: fixed the huge image and used the thumbnail instead! sorry!

and i draw those smiley faces and the line around it when i was bored waiting for something they're not connected to anything!

 

Your schematic is still unreadable. Blow up the schematic and take a screen capture of just that section. Or better print to a pdf. We don't need to see all that white space and your task bar.

 

And what have you done to troubleshoot the issue? Do you at least have power?

 

Use the "Upload a File" button at the bottom of the text-entry box (next to the POST Reply button).

 

And nothing other than the mutli meter connection test i mentioned! I dont know much and this is my first pcb

Do you at least know how to check voltage? You are not going to get very far in your hobby if you don't know how to do some basic troubleshooting.

 

Do you at least know how to check voltage? You are not going to get very far in your hobby if you don't know how to do some basic troubleshooting.

Yeah! OFC! if by checking voltage you mean just using multi meter like i do with batteries, I'm not that terrible where should i check voltage? And it is a hobby now but I'm planning on becoming an electric engineer or something close!

 

Did you look at the PDF before posting? It's printed mirror image and not worth the bother to try to read. Also, cut out most of the white space next time; we don't need to see the coordinate rulers for such a simple circuit.

 

Hello,

The schematic is mirrored, I mirrored it back:




I also looked at the PCB drawing. There are some spots that can lead to possible shorts:



And tried to draw some alternative routes for the traces (I do not have any PCB drawing tools here, so I did it in Kolourpaint):



Bertus

 

Did you look at the PDF before posting? It's printed mirror image and not worth the bother to try to read. Also, cut out most of the white space next time; we don't need to see the coordinate rulers for such a simple circuit.

Woops, sorry I was in a rush to go and study!

I moved it to a PDF and removed the frame, looks readable to me now

 

Hello,

The schematic is mirrored, I mirrored it back:

View attachment 94637


I also looked at the PCB drawing. There are some spots that can lead to possible shorts:

View attachment 94638

And tried to draw some alternative routes for the traces (I do not have any PCB drawing tools here, so I did it in Kolourpaint):

View attachment 94639

Bertus

Thanks a lot I did check the traces you mentioned, they all look good to both my eyes and my multi meter! My multimeter read 5kOhms for the trace near the regulator, the other two didn't need a multimeter, but i did and it was not a short circuit (I don't remember the value) And i did change the trace near the headers a bit (simply dragged them away) but sounds like i forgot to save it!

 

As Bertus pointed out, you made your PCB layout more challenging than necessary. When I layout boards, I try to minimize the number of shorting opportunities.

 

How many times do I need to ask before you will give an answer?

Have you confirmed that your regulator is working? Do you have 5V out?

 

As Bertus pointed out, you made your PCB layout more challenging than necessary. When I layout boards, I try to minimize the number of shorting opportunities.

Yeah, it was my first layout I was also super exited!
Maybe I'll print another better version of this, possibly with a bottom layer, I accidentally bought single layer PCB :S

BTW, is that possible that I fried my chip? I should also mention that i dropped a tiny bit of solder into top of my AtTiny when I was done soldering, I simply just used my nail to remove it! Also i had to use soldering wick for a small bridge, is that possible that i burned it?

 

How many times do I need to ask before you will give an answer?

Have you confirmed that your regulator is working? Do you have 5V out?

Yeah, The LED does turn of with the brightness i was expecting it to!

 

No wait its reading 3.6, weird, let me check something!

 

As Bertus pointed out, you made your PCB layout more challenging than necessary. When I layout boards, I try to minimize the number of shorting opportunities.

Agreed. For such a simple circuit the layout is why too complicated. I just designed a PCB with 7 times more mcu pins and lots more components. I did not require on jumber on a single sided board. And I don't have a lot of experience with PCB design,

Plus SMD is the wrong way to go for a newbie. You probably fried your mcu soldering it to the board. You also have a greater chance for solder bridges.

 

Yeah, The LED does turn of with the brightness i was expecting it to!

So your eye can convert light intensity to voltage level? You are pretty amazing.

Measure the voltage! And measure it at the mcu if you can.

 

No wait its reading 3.6, weird, let me check something!

Yep.

 

Agreed. For such a simple circuit the layout is why too complicated. I just designed a PCB with 7 times more mcu pins and lots more components. I did not require on jumber on a single sided board. And I don't have a lot of experience with PCB design,

Plus SMD is the wrong way to go for a newbie. You probably fried your mcu soldering it to the board. You also have a greater chance for solder bridges.

I had soldered before, just pth( when i was a kid, with only 50% sucsses rate, ehm.... i did this to avoid drilling and to save space ) maybe i'll make my next one PTH! I also saw tons of SMD Soldering video i had to try it!

maybe i'll desolder the IC and try it on a breakout board :? I'll first replace the Regulator! and try it on a breadboard

 

So your eye can convert light intensity to voltage level? You are pretty amazing.

Measure the voltage! And measure it at the mcu if you can.

lol I thought it would be obvious! I did try with the bare 5v from arduino and its the same level of brightness! I'll never trust my eyes again!