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Course notes for a beginners PCB design workshop
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Document steps for My First #BadgeLife #3

Closed amcewen closed 3 years ago

amcewen commented 4 years ago

Write up the steps to design a simple LED badge: schematic; circuit; generating gerbers and BOM

amcewen commented 4 years ago

1-Click-BOM is at https://github.com/kitspace/1clickBOM

cheapjack commented 4 years ago

I've made a quick start on filling in the steps but I'm kinda stuck at the generate netlist section as I don't fully know what I'm doing... I'll dig out some Kicad tutorials for reference and get you to fact/process check later on ;)

amcewen commented 3 years ago

Have picked away at this a bit.

Re-jigged the indenting to fix the automatic numbering. Seems you have to indent things to match where the main text of the list item started (i.e. 3 spaces for numbered lists, 2 spaces for unordered lists)

And then moved things between some of the sections to match the titles. I'll have a look at the netlist and so on next, and run through the PCB layout to generate a bunch of new screenshots.

amcewen commented 3 years ago

We should stick the battery and resistor on the back of the PCB and the LED on the front, which also lets us explain vias, etc.

Having two options: one for through-hole and one for surface-mount.

amcewen commented 3 years ago

Finished writing this all up.