PCB Design workshop

PCB Design workshop
Date	2015/02/08
Time
Location	Techinc (date TBD)
Type	Workshop
Contact	Brainsmoke
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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

Schematic ideas

Please add what you'd like to make

• Led strip(/dome/globe/cube/)... (see polyhedrone)
• Arduino clone
• Capacitive touch keys
• Carambola2 / esp8266 / ??? breakout board

...

Workshop organiser

Brainsmoke

Interested

• Narya
• JinX
• Realitygaps
• your name here

braindump

• Design PCBs using KiCAD (open source), or possibly eagle
  • Schematic design (creating the schematic in KiCAD, the EE part 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