Austin's PCB Business Card

Created by [Austin Kim (AsphyxiaUwO)] • Started on June 23, 2025

A PCB Business Card with an NFC Tag and 2 LEDs.

Total Time Spent On Entire Project: 13hrs

June 22nd/23rd Awful Sleep Schedule

My friend Eddy Zhao showed me a great tutorial on making a PCB Business Card, which inspired me to try it out. https://jams.hackclub.com/jam/hacker-card

I initially tried to export all of the parts to a KiCAD library, but I could not find the footprints for the resistor and LEDs, so I continued with EasyEDA.

Here is the schematic. I made it very similar, but I just added one extra LED image

I added SVGs of email, GitHub, and LinkedIn to make the PCB look a bit more aesthetically pleasing with my contact info. image

Unfortunately, it felt kinda empty, so I started using the soldermask layer to add some color around image

Added braille with the copper layer, but I have no idea if it would work. image

I don't have a job, so I just put down that I am a student. image

And I put down a few things I do image

Found rounded edges image

Finishing Touches image

Total Time Spent: 8Hrs

June 24th

Removed the thing at the bottom since it looks kinda ugly and rearranged a few other things. image

And I just cleaned up everything else as well. image

Total Time Spent: 2Hrs

July 1st

Redid BOM and switched to 1 LED

Total Time Spent: 3 Hrs