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Revision as of 16:02, 22 January 2015
PCB Design workshop | |
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Date | 2015/02/08 |
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Location | Techinc |
Type | Workshop |
Contact | Brainsmoke |
Contents
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
...
Workshop organiser
Interested
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
- options:
- Etching and things . . considerations