Fantastic, thank you for all your help!

Thanks, that all makes a lot of sense.

It looks like pad 5/VCC is on the middle-left, pad 2/GND is on the middle-right, and pad 6/data is on the upper-left of the footprint when I open the hillside46.kicad_pcb file in the KiCad PCB Editor, click on ‘View’, and check “Flip Board View”.

As a sanity check, given the info above: it looks like I could rotate that ESD chip 180 degrees (so that the ESD chip’s pin 1 is on the lower-right pad of the footprint) and have everything work, correct?

I really appreciate your offer, and I’d totally take you up on it if @SurvivorBobXYZ hadn’t already provided a reply above. Thank you so much for all of your help!

I do think this may have more to do with the fact that Beehaw, my current instance, recently made the decision to defederate with lemmy.world. Is that assumption correct?

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Thanks for the suggestion!

I tried hitting the crosspost button and pasting in [email protected], but it said something like “no results found”. Is this because of the defederation I read about? Is there another easy way to do this or would I have to create a new account on lemmy.world and copy/paste my post over there?