Interested in learning how to design, manufacture, and test PCBs with Maker Club?
Here are some resources from a seminar ran by Katie Bradford in 2020.
The seminar consisted of presentations and videos about PCB design as well as a hands-on component of designing your own boards and assembling/testing them.
While boards and components are no longer available through CMC, the notes and videos found below are a helpful resources for getting started with PCB design.
| Week | Topics | Deliverables | Notes |
| 0 | Intro | Install Altium | [0] Workshop Intro Setting Up Altium |
| 1 | Electronic Components Overview, Soldering | Assemble Board | [1] Basic Electronics Overview |
| 2 | Design Planning, Component Selection/Design | Create Component in Altium | [2] Design Planning |
| 3 | Schematic Design | 1st Draft Schematic | [4] Schematic Design |
| 4 | Layout Design | Fix Schematic, 1st draft layout | [5] PCB Layout |
| 5 | Manufacturing, Test/Validation | Fix Layout, Pick Final Project | [6] PCB Manufacturing |
| 6 | Advanced Topics | schematic final project | [08] Advanced Topics |
| 7 | Possible Guest Lectures (stay tuned!) | layout final project, order boards |
Example of what the board should look like up-close:
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Don’t use IPC compliant footprint wizard SOJ. that is an SMT part. Use the regular footprint wizard DIP. Or just make it manually 🙂
