PCB Design workshop

PCB Design workshop
Date	2015/02/08
Time
Location	Techinc
Type	Workshop
Contact	Brainsmoke

Time

We'll start around 15:00

Workshop focus

Learn how to design your own PCB and how to prepare the files to send off to a PCB fab. (Making them yourself is also possible.)

Prerequisites

What do you need to participate?

• An idea of what to make
• A circuit schematic
• A mouse with scroll functionality (optional)

Schematic ideas

Please add what you'd like to make

• Led strip(/dome/globe/cube/)... (see polyhedrone)
• Arduino clone
• Capacitive touch buttons
• Carambola2 / esp8266 / ??? breakout board
• Etching tutorial how to transfer toner ink to PCB drill holes (tools and equipment)
• Who has equipment in amsterdam or can etch PCB (where to print the circuits and what is the best medium for PCB toner transfer or develpoing the circuit on the PCB
• better methods than PCB etching like using a mill with coordinates to mill the PCB
• 3d printed circuits is it worth to try conductive filament and 3d print the PCB

...

Workshop organiser

Brainsmoke

Interested

• Narya
• JinX
• Realitygaps
• cmpxchg
• Chris
• Keesj
• your name here

braindump

• Design PCBs using KiCAD (open source), or possibly eagle
  • Schematic creation (creating the schematic in KiCAD, designing the schematic is not the main focus of this workshop)
  • Netlist / footprint matching / footprint generation
  • Layout design
  • Routing
  • Rules check
  • Artwork / SVG -> kicad conversion
  • Gerber file generation
  • Gerber file inspection
• Order PCBs
  • options:
    • seeedstudio
    • iteadstudio
    • hackvana or #hackvana on freenode
    • smart-prototyping
    • Dirt Cheap Dirty Boards
• Etching and things . . considerations