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1: How To Design PCB in EasyEDA : Introduction
EasyEDA simplifies PCB design with cloud-based accessibility, collaborative tools, and a user-friendly interface. Usually, professional CAD software needs beefy computers, or at least decent hardware, to run most of its features. But in recent years, cloud-based tools have become very ...
JLCPCB: Selling PCB At Bargain, Starting from $2
With the rising demand of PCBs in electronic devices and advanced technology there is a rise in PCB manufacturers all over the world. Today one such PCB manufacturer with world over presence will be unwrapped and analysed in detail is ...
How To Use KiCAD’s Footprint Assignment Tool
In the last aritcle, we discussed various factors on how to select the right footprint for your components. Now, we’ll discuss how we can assign the footprint to the components using the KiCad’s footprint assignment tool. Footprint Assignment Tool Here ...
How To Select The Best Footprint?
In the previous article we completed the schematic with ERC and prepared it for PCB development. But each symbol in the schematic is just a representation of the component and it does not contain the information about the physical properties ...
How To Perform ERC & Verify Circuit In KiCAD
We have finally completed making a circuit using the schematic editor! We are very close to making our own printed circuit board. All we have to do is some Electrical Rule Check (ERC) and footprint assignments to start with the ...
What is PCB Stackup & How to Setup in KiCad
We finally finished assigning the components in the previous article. In this article, we’ll discuss a little about the PCB layers and how to co-relate the physical PCB to the PCB layout editor. PCB STACKUP Printed circuit boards are made ...
How To Prettify Your Schematic with Kicad 7.0
In the previous article, we made an average looking circuit using the schematic editor by using the bare minimum tools that KiCAD has to offer. In this article, we’ll discuss more interesting tools and make the same schematic more presentable. ...
How To Design a Circuit in KiCAD’s Schematic Editor
KiCAD is such an incredible software which is completely free! But those who are just getting started might get overwhelmed by the amount of options and settings it has to offer. So learning each tool without real world examples would ...
How To Use New Kicad User Interface
In the previous article we talk about what is KiCad and some of the tools it has to offer. In this article, we’ll try to explore more about KiCad, specially how to navigate around KiCad and how some of its tools ...