Today I tried laying out the pomodoro timer on a small breadboard I had lying around.In the end, I could fit everything on the board, so that was good news. There are two major drawbacks to this, however: firstly, as you may notice, there’s no power laid out here yet; and, secondly, I’m going to have to solder this point-to-point.
As far as power is concerned, I’m planning to use a 3.3V coin battery, which I was hoping to mount somewhere on the back. However, given how tight everything is mounted, that may not be an option. I’ll pretty much be using every little bit of real estate there. Firstly, of course, for the leads of the components, but as they’re all placed so close to each other, I’ll have to do point-to-point soldering, I’m assuming right now. That will also imply I won’t have a surface left to glue a coin battery mount to. I may have to resort to leaving that just trailing on a side.
Either way, I’m looking forward to soldering these components on soon, now that I have a basic layout going.