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I am currently working on an LED clock project, and one of the things I would like to use is the SMDs found in WS2812B neopixel. I could simply use the LED strip itself, but I wanted to use a custom setup for the SMDs, so I thought about designing the PCB. However, I don't have a lot of experience designing PCBs, so I'm not really sure if I'm doing things correctly.

The schematic for the PCB I envisioned it to be. It may look like a matrix, but it's supposed to be a linear strip.

The top half of the PCB I came up with where it includes the start of the "strip"

So I wanted the LED to be arranged in a zig-zag way that starts from the top left. I included the resistor (330 ohmsΩ) at the beginning and I connected a capacitor (supposedly somewhere between 100uF100 to 1000uF1000 uF) to one of the SMDs for every 4 SMDs (I asked for suggestion from someone who knows PCB way better than I do, and he suggested that it's probably fine to have 1 for every 4 SMDs).

I would have bought a sample or 1 one of this board to test out and fix whatever I did wrong, but I am currently short on time, so I'm hoping I could get some help in getting feedback on what I did wrong before ordering the PCB.

I am currently working on an LED clock project, and one of the things I would like to use is the SMDs found in WS2812B neopixel. I could simply use the LED strip itself, but I wanted to use a custom setup for the SMDs, so I thought about designing the PCB. However, I don't have a lot of experience designing PCBs, so I'm not really sure if I'm doing things correctly.

The schematic for the PCB I envisioned it to be. It may look like a matrix, but it's supposed to be a linear strip.

The top half of the PCB I came up with where it includes the start of the "strip"

So I wanted the LED to be arranged in a zig-zag way that starts from the top left. I included the resistor (330 ohms) at the beginning and I connected a capacitor (supposedly somewhere between 100uF to 1000uF) to one of the SMDs for every 4 SMDs (I asked for suggestion from someone who knows PCB way better than I do, and he suggested that it's probably fine to have 1 for every 4 SMDs).

I would have bought a sample or 1 one of this board to test out and fix whatever I did wrong, but I am currently short on time, so I'm hoping I could get some help in getting feedback on what I did wrong before ordering the PCB.

I am currently working on an LED clock project, and one of the things I would like to use is the SMDs found in WS2812B neopixel. I could simply use the LED strip itself, but I wanted to use a custom setup for the SMDs, so I thought about designing the PCB. However, I don't have a lot of experience designing PCBs, so I'm not really sure if I'm doing things correctly.

The schematic for the PCB I envisioned it to be. It may look like a matrix, but it's supposed to be a linear strip.

The top half of the PCB I came up with where it includes the start of the "strip"

So I wanted the LED to be arranged in a zig-zag way that starts from the top left. I included the resistor (330 Ω) at the beginning and I connected a capacitor (supposedly somewhere between 100 to 1000 uF) to one of the SMDs for every 4 SMDs (I asked for suggestion from someone who knows PCB way better than I do, and he suggested that it's probably fine to have 1 for every 4 SMDs).

I would have bought a sample or 1 one of this board to test out and fix whatever I did wrong, but I am currently short on time, so I'm hoping I could get some help in getting feedback on what I did wrong before ordering the PCB.

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I am currently working on an LED clock project, and one of the things I would like to use is the SMDs found in WS2812B neopixel. I could simply use the LED strip itself, but I wanted to use a custom setup for the SMDs, so I thought about designing the PCB. However, I don't have a lot of experience designing PCBs, so I'm not really sure if I'm doing things correctly.   

The schematic for the PCB I envisioned it to be. It may look like a matrix, but it's supposed to be a linear strip.

The top half of the PCB I came up with where it includes the start of the "strip"

So I wanted the LED to be arranged in a zig-zag way that starts from the top left. I included the resistor (330 ohms) at the beginning and I connected a capacitor (supposedly somewhere between 100uF to 1000uF) to one of the SMDs for every 4 SMDs (I asked for suggestion from someone who knows PCB way better than I do, and he suggested that it's probably fine to have 1 for every 4 SMDs).

I would have bought a sample or 1 one of this board to test out and fix whatever I did wrong, but I am currently short on time, so I'm hoping I could get some help in getting feedback on what I did wrong before ordering the PCB.

I am currently working on an LED clock project, and one of the things I would like to use is the SMDs found in WS2812B neopixel. I could simply use the LED strip itself, but I wanted to use a custom setup for the SMDs, so I thought about designing the PCB. However, I don't have a lot of experience designing PCBs, so I'm not really sure if I'm doing things correctly.  The schematic for the PCB I envisioned it to be. It may look like a matrix, but it's supposed to be a linear strip.

The top half of the PCB I came up with where it includes the start of the "strip"

So I wanted the LED to be arranged in a zig-zag way that starts from the top left. I included the resistor (330 ohms) at the beginning and I connected a capacitor (supposedly somewhere between 100uF to 1000uF) to one of the SMDs for every 4 SMDs (I asked for suggestion from someone who knows PCB way better than I do, and he suggested that it's probably fine to have 1 for every 4 SMDs).

I would have bought a sample or 1 one of this board to test out and fix whatever I did wrong, but I am currently short on time, so I'm hoping I could get some help in getting feedback on what I did wrong before ordering the PCB.

I am currently working on an LED clock project, and one of the things I would like to use is the SMDs found in WS2812B neopixel. I could simply use the LED strip itself, but I wanted to use a custom setup for the SMDs, so I thought about designing the PCB. However, I don't have a lot of experience designing PCBs, so I'm not really sure if I'm doing things correctly. 

The schematic for the PCB I envisioned it to be. It may look like a matrix, but it's supposed to be a linear strip.

The top half of the PCB I came up with where it includes the start of the "strip"

So I wanted the LED to be arranged in a zig-zag way that starts from the top left. I included the resistor (330 ohms) at the beginning and I connected a capacitor (supposedly somewhere between 100uF to 1000uF) to one of the SMDs for every 4 SMDs (I asked for suggestion from someone who knows PCB way better than I do, and he suggested that it's probably fine to have 1 for every 4 SMDs).

I would have bought a sample or 1 one of this board to test out and fix whatever I did wrong, but I am currently short on time, so I'm hoping I could get some help in getting feedback on what I did wrong before ordering the PCB.

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I am currently working on an LED clock project, and one of the things I would like to use is the SMDs found in WS2812B neopixel. I could simply use the LED strip itself, but I wanted to use a custom setup for the SMDs, so I thought about designing the PCB. However, I don't have a lot of experience designing PCBs, so I'm not really sure if I'm doing things correctly. The schematic for the PCB I envisioned it to be. It may look like a matrix, but it's supposed to be a linear strip.

The top half of the PCB I came up with where it includes the start of the "strip"

So I wanted the LED to be arranged in a zig-zag way that starts from the top left. I included the resistor (330 ohms) at the beginning and I connected a capacitor (supposedly somewhere between 100uF to 1000uF) to one of the SMDs for every 4 SMDs (I asked for suggestion from someone who knows PCB way better than I do, and he suggested that it's probably fine to have 1 for every 4 SMDs).

I would have bought a sample or 1 one of this board to test out and fix whatever I did wrong, but I am currently short on time, so I'm hoping I could get some help in getting feedback on what I did wrong before ordering the PCB.