Hey awesome, a place to ramble about random shit in my life noone cares about, I've always wanted one of these!

Anyways, today's failed project was a circuit board for a strobe light to be used in conjunction with my dad's flight simulator. Here's what the layout looks like:



The thing is less than an inch squared, and is just an ATTiny13 microcontroller, 6 pin programming header, two pins for power in, and four pins for two isolated outputs/intputs. Only one output is going to be used, simply to drive an LED to flash in roughly the pattern that a Cirrus SR22 strobe light flashes in.

Good news: I haven't wasted a circuit board yet.
Bad news: I still dunno if this is the right layout. See the problem with making circuit boards is you design on the computer, and then you print out the design, which is applied to a piece of copper clad board, and through hole components are soldered to the opposite side.
In other words, the design is flipped like 3 times in the process of going from computer to finished product, so this leads to lots of problems. Furthermore, I am still a bit confused as to whether this is the right configuration for the programming header or not. The datasheet for the programmer shows this:


Which basically doesn't tell me shit, like, whether that's what the pins on the target board should be, or whether that's what the programming header looks like facing it, or looking at it from the top, etc.

I only have one board that currently works (this one: http://i44.tinypic.com/2n0k1nr.jpg ) and I can only *sometimes* program these things correctly in a breadboard.

Anyways I'm bored of writing this shit post now, hope you enjoyed it.

Edit: Also, today I learned that BILLY MAYS died of cocaine. Lol.