Interested in learning how to design, manufacture, and test PCBs with Maker Club?
Maker Club will be holding a student-led PCB seminar September 14th- Nov 2nd
The seminar will consist of presentations and videos about PCB design as well as a hands-on component of designing your own boards and assembling/testing them
#10 – PCB Design Is Learned On the Job, but Needs to Be Taught at School. Engineers are not trained in PCB layout at college. Some programs might give their students exposure to prototyping boards, but those are only good for 5 MHz designs because of all the noise they create. For some PCB designers, PCB routing is an art while others strived to make it an opportunity to display their technical prowess. PCB design software has an amazing feature that automatically groups components, but it’s a cardinal sin for designers to abuse the function when arranging the components.
Pcb Board Design
The seminar will be entirely virtual, with boards and components provided by CMC
| Week | Topics | Deliverables | Notes |
| 0 | Intro | Install Altium | [0] Workshop Intro Setting Up Altium |
| 1 | Electronic Components Overview, Soldering | Assemble Board | [1] Basic Electronics Overview |
| 2 | Design Planning, Component Selection/Design | Create Component in Altium | [2] Design Planning |
| 3 | Schematic Design | 1st Draft Schematic | [4] Schematic Design |
| 4 | Layout Design | Fix Schematic, 1st draft layout | [5] PCB Layout |
| 5 | Manufacturing, Test/Validation | Fix Layout, Pick Final Project | [6] PCB Manufacturing |
| 6 | Advanced Topics | schematic final project | [08] Advanced Topics |
| 7 | Possible Guest Lectures (stay tuned!) | layout final project, order boards |
Example of what the board should look like up-close:
Pcb Design Presentation Template
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Pcb Design Presentation Templates
Don’t use IPC compliant footprint wizard SOJ. that is an SMT part. Use the regular footprint wizard DIP. Or just make it manually 🙂