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>It's an equivalent of self-compiling a software project after checking out its repo I would not assign this to someone as their first electronics project. The

>It's an equivalent of self-compiling a software project after checking out its repo I would not assign this to someone as their first electronics project. They would have to order all the components and get the PCB etched themselves. There's a fair bit of soldering, and a usable soldering iron is not cheap. And there's no undo button in hardware: if you solder something in backwards and pop it, you get pay for a new component and wait for it to ship to you.

seba_dos1 2y ago
Why would you bother with etching such PCB yourself if you can order 10 of them for $4, and that's including shipping? Get two sets of components in case you screw up and then just solder all this exclusively through-hole and one-sided stuff with cheapest iron around. The hardest part will be ordering the components, or more specifically verifying that you got them right, as the KiCad project does not include a BOM. Other than that, it's as easy as it gets. Entry-level workshop stuff, about as complex as ArduTouch. People who never held a soldering iron in their life successfully learn on this kind of boards. (and if you're willing to spare a few more bucks you could even get it assembled by a PCB fab and just receive ready-made boards in your mailbox - the prices aren't prohibitive there either)