Topics
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Printed circuit board technology
- Download the software from the KiCad website. There are versions for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
- DigiKey's KiCad symbols and footprints libraries
- User forums
Tutorials (a random collection)
- "Getting started" tutorial from KiCad. From the "company", so it is pretty good. It is bit dated — from May 2015 — so some details may be different now.
- B.A. Bryce. I found this one to be useful.
- A series of videos produced by DigiKey, narrated by the "bow-tie guy". (Who also does tutorials for SparkFun.) These are well produced, efficient, and fairly up-do-date (Spring of 2018).
1. intro (11 min)
2. create schematic symbol (11 min)
3. schematic capture (16 min)
4. create footprint (20 min)
5. Assign footprints and create net list (15 min)
6. Place parts & define outline (17 min)
7. Board layout (18 min)
8. Gerbers (9 min)
9. BOM (14 min) - A page from KiCad with a list of other tutorials
- Switched-mode regulator introduction – buck, boost, and inverting circuits
- Temperature
- Light
- Motion
- Sound
- Introduction to Arduino
- Digital output
- Digital input
- Serial monitor
- Analog input
- Pulse-width modulation
- Sound out
- Timing
- Real-time clock
- LCD displays
- LED displays
- Power
- Bareduino : hardware | programming