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When working on PCB designs, I fount it quite often necessary to create footprints for the parts I was going to use. Accompanying the footprints were the 3D models, sometimes just called CAD models. Big name suppliers usually provide them in STEP, BXL, or other similar file formats, but lesser-known brands will likely not give such resources. When this was the case, my second best choice would be to measure the drawings on the component datasheets. However, this method was not always reliable, as the figures might be out of scale. Then, the only option left was to take pictures of the actual component, and measuring the features by the pixel. This was a very labor-intensive process. For example, each of the OLED display models below took me several hours to create. Despite this, I still tried to have as much 3D models on my PCB as possible since the look they bring was very satisfying.

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Good, this is the first page on this website. I’m gonna leave it up as a “Hello, world”, and use it as the page for the blog itself.

TBH this blog is kind of late to the party. A lot of my interesting projects were done before it, so I might need to add those in, gradually.