Download all the design files for this battle: https://bit.ly/4iMlPyg

Ultimate Guide - How to Develop and Prototype a New Electronic Hardware Product: https://bit.ly/3GVc5Va

haha PCB design race. Now this is my type of sport.

The ending was so abrupt. It feels like you missed to add half of the video.

Nicolas got that 10x engineer aura

I don't know how the algorithm got me here, but damn I'm glad it did. I'm still a beginner and this is awesome to watch!

KiCad for the win!!! I am so happy to see 2 out of 3 people using open source soultions for their problems <3 <3

One moment I am watching the restoration of a 200 year old French Chateau, and my next recommended video is a PCB design race.... I know absolutely nothing about PCB's (or Chateaus for that matter).....and I am proud to say, I still don't know anything about either, except that both take a lot of time, dedication, and focus to do it right!

This is a good video idea, and I think it would be even better if you could add the following (I know it might be difficult, though):
1 - It would be nice to list the potential issues with the layouts one by one
2 - Make a scoring system so we know which one is the best
3 - Have them finish the pcb design after the 2h, until the pcbs reach a a ready to be manufactured state
4 - Make their pcbs and then compare the designs in terms of noise, etc

i checked arduino once suddenly youtube thought i need to now everything

Nicholas nailed

My dad was a PCB designer (well he was an electrical engineer because I don't think PCB designer was a thing yet when he graduated) and designed some of the PCBs for very early German modems for Digitec in Saarbrücken. He was never able to explain what went into the job he did all day. He'd sometimes tell me about details with no context, like toward the end of his career when he worked on the PCBs for some of the first 5G switches and they had so many layers the electromagnetic interference between layers made them near impossible to design, but this was a cool glimpse into the kind of stuff (albeit with much older soft- and hardware) he must have done all day. I remember in the early 90s he brought an Apollo workstation home because that's what his CAD software ran on.

Placing the temperature sensor behind the MCU wasn't the wisest choice unless it was to measure the MCU temperature.

I'm gone only speak about the  mistakes: Craig's design wouldn't be good. The USB pair is going trough the high frequency(buck converter) area so it is picking up noise. Also putting the sensor at the bottom of the PCB makes the assembly processes harder and  it will cost more. The common mistake in all three design is the misplacement of the decoupling capacitors. They should be very close the the uC and not grouped like this.

This format is so fun to watch and quite unique :)

I like how Nicolas combined the compactness of Craig and the clean look of Victoria.

Nicolas is the clear winner, Craig’s has some significant issues, usb data will have to run under his switcher, decoupling caps way off to the side, stub antennas on the ground plane, double sided components are a pain and high cost to manufacture but also positioned to be influenced by the mcu temp. His switcher also has insufficient copper or thermal vias. for power dissipation. Everyone missed mounting holes, fiducials and could do with having a thermal isolation relief routed around the temp sensor to isolate it from the board temps.

As an electrical engineering student Its a great thing this show up in my feed. Love it!

as an EE student, finding this type of content is so cool. it feels like normal YouTube entertainment but with EE lol. Love it. I subscribed

You've heard of FIDE ratings? I propose Évaluation de Compétence en Conception de Circuits (ECCC) – pronounced "é-say-say-say" for competitive PCB design.

2:22 " yoou guys getting paid ? O.o" xD