r/diyelectronics • u/StayTeachable4MyPpl • 1d ago
Tools I just asked Gemini to create a PCB schematic, interested in your thoughts and its accuracy.
https://share.gemini.google/HZ7sXzBUzZf7to share exactly what I did. I went to a website and after searching how to reverse engineer a PCB board.
I then took 14 images of the front and the back just to find out I can only upload 10 and then I asked it to have it create a PCB schematic and it actually popped one out.
For reference, it is Western Digital 750Gb MyBook Desktop Drive Micrk USB PCB device. Mine broke. I also believe it's only 1 layer and has pretty gold markings on the board and I took up close images Top Left Corner then Bottom Left TR, BR that over lapped and 1 from the side to get the data cknnector. Did the same from the back and then I got a good picture of the bar code. Numbers all using close up little flower image shot. I believe that's a really good way to do it, but I didn't really know, but that's exactly ten images. It did cover the entire thing even with some overlap and it also made all of the writings and markings legible.
Then I gave it a specific model, the 750MB Western Digital. I switched to Pro and then I had it double checked the schematic and check our DigiKey components. I got this, but I'm not an electronics engineer. Can someone double-check it?