BUILD GUIDEL1.01 WROOM breakout
Walk this revision through the full design → bring-up pipeline. Design stages roll up per revision; build stages track per board.
DESIGN STAGES
PHASE 01REQUIREMENTSBefore you pick a single part, decide what the board has to do and the limits it has to respect. These are the promises everything else has to keep — cheap to get right now, expensive to fix later.UpcomingPHASE 02BOM SOURCINGBefore you draw a single wire, lock in your real parts. The BOM — your Bill of Materials — is the exact list of everything on the board, where every line is a part you can actually order. Pick and check the real parts first; the schematic comes next.UpcomingPHASE 03SCHEMATICYour parts are already chosen and sourced — so the schematic isn't where you make decisions, it's where you write them down. Walk the board one small sub-circuit at a time: name the problem, meet the parts that solve it, then capture it in KiCad. Every refdes below is already on your BOM.UpcomingPHASE 04LAYOUTNow you place the parts into copper and route the connections. The circuit is settled; what turns the board from 'works' into 'barely boots' is where the parts sit and how the copper flows. On this board, one rule stands above the rest: protect the antenna.UpcomingPHASE 05DRC / GERBERProve the layout obeys the fab's rules, then export the exact files that get manufactured.UpcomingPHASE 06ORDERINGCommit the design to the real world: boards from a fab, parts from distributors.Upcoming