Anyone have any thoughts?

Does this schematic look correct? I really messed up the pins on the MBT3904

@Microcenter - I am not manually pulling anything high or low when looking at Serial Monitor. Understand why I have to manually jumper io0 now to get it to load the sketch, but not understand why I can't monitor the output once the sketch is loaded using anything but Arduino Serial Monitor.

The chip is brand new, jut came off the assembly last week. Using 9600 cause that is all that is needed.

Thank you for the reply. Not sure why the wiring though would explain why Arduino Serial Monitor is able to see output but nothing else can. The above would explain why I have to jumper io0 to ground, I get that. But why cant anything other then Arduino serial monitor see the serial data? I have loa...

I have been working on a design using an esp32-wroom-ue-n8. Having 2 issues and I think they are both related. In order to upload a sketch in Arudino I have to jumper io0 to gnd. This isn't a huge deal cause I could just add a tact switch but would like to avoid that. The bigger issue though is that...

Go gentle on me, this is the first time I had designed a board to use a chip instead of the prebuilt devices on one of my boards. Now that the rest of my board is all designed and prototyped I am moving some things over to SMD & going to start having the chip on the board. Reasons for moving is prim...