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PCB Design

Inspiration drawn from:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PrintedCircuitBoard/wiki/index/

https://github.com/kitspace/awesome-electronics

 

PCB design is an important part of electrical engineering, for Academy Racing as well as university. PCB design allow you to design bespoke solutions. With the improvement of the technology, the cost and barrier to entry has been lower and lower. There is great software and tools that make it easy for anyone to have a stab at designing a PCB. 

PCB design is a art, there are many layers (literally) and it has to be well throughout and planned. It is very hard to design a good board, but very easy to design a terrible board. You find that when desigiing anything you will have to balance many things at the same time. 

Useful software

There are many pieces of software for designing PCBs, but these are preferred for a variety of reasons. This is the software that most members of the team use.

KiCAD

A EDA software for development and design of PCBs. This is a commonly used open source piece of software, mainly used by hobbyist.

Below are some useful plugins for KiCad that should be used, making things significantly easier:

  • Interactive HTML BOM
  • Impart GUI for KiCad
  • Fabrication Toolkit


 


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