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Building such dev board shields/carrier boards is a nice beginner friendly way to get into electronics and pcb design.
by argulane 4y ago
Building such dev board shields/carrier boards is a nice beginner friendly way to get into electronics and pcb design.
- fimdomeio 4y agoYes. for someone that sometimes plays around with microcontrollers but knows very little about electronics I feel if this had detailed documentation it could be the perfect next learning step. Who knows it might event make me take an adventure into ordering custom pcbs and soldering surface mount components.
- cronix 4y agoHere's a good 3 hour tutorial for the ESP32, which got me up and running with my first board design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_p0YV-JlfU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_p0YV-JlfU
- Rebelgecko 4y agoI'm starting to get into it (I just ordered some tweaked versions of the Airgradient PCB, which also uses the D1 Mini). I had kind of a realization like "oh wait, just because something is a PCB doesn't mean you have to use tiny surface mount components" What are some of the typical tool people use? I used EasyEDA because the board I was modifying was already in their system and their coupon made ordering the PCBs basically free (I think I'm paying $3 for 5 PCBs + shipping). However that software felt a bit unpolished, are there better alternatives? (granted, most of the EE software I've used feels rough, looking at you Xilinx)
- jamesmunns 4y agoKiCad is a really excellent tool, usable for a pretty wide set of use cases, even professionally if you don't need a specific tool like antenna design or complex high speed trace matching. All of the low and high code board houses will support either kicads project formats directly, or kicad supports standard Gerber format export.