Is there any /g/ guide for a beginner who wants to design PCBs?
>>107712491You're almost guaranteed to have better luck on >>>/diy/ than you will here. I haven't been there in years but I'd be surprised if they don't have a general or something for PCB design.
>>107712491>making>designTwo completely different things.Try learning English.
>>107712491What do you want to make
>>107712561Don't be an asshole if you don't have anything of value to contribute? Did you even contribute anything in this thread other than being an annoying asshole?
>>107712624Calm down, lady. Your knickers might get in a twist if you keep this up.
>>107712491>Is there any /g/ guide for a beginner who wants to design PCBs?Andre LaMothe has a udemy course on it. Old version of it was on 1337x last time I looked.
>>107712649Any good?
>>107712644You are a bigot of the highest order.
>>107712491Designing a simple PCB for embedded shit like that STM32 is easy. Learn KiCad.Making something where the signal integrity is important is much harder
>>107712678You are bigoted if you don't think dogs are equal to humans or that they shouldn't vote in our elections.
>>107712491technically speaking excluding the IC, everything also is just an Arduino optimization - you will have to place an energy source, trade it to some resistors, that you then trade to a switch component that you then trade to a IC ( this is the Arduino in the case of an Arduino ) and then you trace that to some component that either moves, is LED, or transfers energy to another board.... if you can make a project working on an Arduino - say a lamp that turns on and off on a button switch, then you can make a PCB that does the exact same shit with the exact same components and logic.
>>107712491How about you get a job?People get paid to do this shit. Sign up.
>>107712708You sound like a racist nazi fascist.
>>107712491KiCad appears to be the default go-to...But what sort of stage are *you* at?A tool like 'fritzing' can digitally replicate a little breadboard project easily - and with a click that'll be a wiring diagram or a PCB layout... As for 'guides' ... Never bothered mesself. As a rewl, *if* it's working at 'breadboard' scale, and *if* you replicate that setup via PCB ... Why wouldn't it work?Most 'issues' arise from not quite replicating the working solution... usually *really* simple errors, which once fabbed cannot be unfabbed... Just have confidence in teh .stl's before you send 'em off...
>>107712668His knowledge and teaching seems legit from what I've read/seen. Take udemy reviews with a grain of salt. A big fuckin grain.>>107712734A gay one at that.
>>107712624Get out of the kitchen if you can't take the heat, plebbit might be more your speed kek
>>107712491Prototype on breadboard, download kicad and try to build something specific with the help of online tutorials. Ideally some audio filtering shit with an opamp and a potentiometer then after that works something around a microcontroller. Get JLCPCB or some other chinese to manufacturer for you.Everything should be pretty straightforward apart from EMC which you will not have to worry about.>>107712715How much and what did your mother smoke whilst pregnant? >>107712722You need to be able to know how to do it before they will hire you to do it.
>>107712507anything in there is pretty much dead. and designing PCBs is technology so it fits here just fine.
>>107712561>>makingI both design and actually literally make them myself. all you need is a clothes iron, regular laser printer and ferric chloride for etching it. you can find different chemicals for etchingthese days sending them to fab house is pretty cheap, you get 5 pieces, shipping is cheap and 4 layers dropped in price a lot past few years
>>107712819>all you need is a clothes iron, regular laser printer and ferric chloride* and a blank copper-clad board
>>107712819>ferric chloride for etching it. you can find different chemicals fuck ferric chloride, the better default diy solution for etching should be h2o2 and citric acid
>>107712879cupric chloride is the new hot shit allegedly2 parts hydrogen peroxide from the drug store, 1 part muriatic acid to start with
My roommate used to do this. It takes a lot of space and makes a mess. In the end he ended up with something he could have gotten made in China.
>>107712955Yeah there's no reason to DIY the boards unless you're on a time crunch. Just have JLC or PCBWay do them, you'll save yourself a lot of headaches, time, and environmental mess.>b-b-but I designed it that means I have to DIY itshut up retard
>>107713026I never said that.
>>107713120I'm agreeing with you, the greentext is preemptive for anyone that wants go come along and suggest it's still worth doing
>>107712786if you can build a project using a microcontroller, u can use a very similar logic to build a PCB as the components are similar. It is not without expertise that I say this: I say it precisely because I know what I am talking about.
>>107712491You need to ask this question on /diy/ , /g/ NEETs cannot into actual technology. Regardless, you just need to know the basics of electronics, learn to use some software, like KiCAD, Altium or Eagle, and gain some experience. You can either order them from something like pcbway or make them on your own (requires a lot of preparation, been there, tried it, only worth it if you are a schizo like me).
>>107713633Literally every single thing you said has already been said ITT.
>>107712491Learn specific uses of components, (clipping diode, pull up resistor, current limiting resistor, etc.) learn what capacitors and inductors do and their quirks (inrush current, ringing, etc.). After that, you just need a problem to solve as you can't design anything without a purpose. For ICs, many of them literally tell you how to use them in their data sheets. For popular shit you'll also find available user made schematics or "hacks" like how you can get ~0% duty cycle on a 555 with a diode to bypass a resistor in discharge cycle
>>107712491First of all, you don't design a PCB out of thin air. You need the electronic schematic first, which implies you know electronics. From the schematic you then start the trace routing for the PCB.Pic related is CadSoft EAGLE
>>107714285>For ICs, many of them literally tell you how to use them in their data sheets.thislook up an IC that does something cool and look up the sample schematic they have in their datasheet. try to work out how it works. copy it in kicad or whatever. send it to pcbway, let them populate it or get the bom from digikey and solder it yourself.
>>107712794Quality > quantity
>>107712491>stm32>usb with 4 traceswhat are all the rest of the io doing?
>>107714708you boast about quality yet to assert its superiority you use a quantifying comparator
Good intros? Not really, because if you are building something more advanced than a toy, you kinda have to be a jack of many trades. Lots of knowledge of math, circuits, parts, emc, rf, signal integrity, simulation and measurement tools, interaction with software, safety requirements, fabrication, etc is required, There is a reason why this is done professionally by engineers. I am in the business for more than a decade and can tell you without watching it, that the design in the Op is not good and is needlessly expensive for example.If I were to recommend someone it would be Rick Hartley, he teached me so many things with his lectures.
>>107714992>he teached me
