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Serialino – The PCB
Serialino – PCB
We talk again of Serialino, our Arduino’s clone: this time the printed circuit board (PCB) design is shown.
Here beside you find a screen-shot of the PCB of Serialino, numbered 1.0.
Even from here you should be able to distinguish the areas described in the previous post.
Power supply section on the bottom-left; the communication port and IC Max232 on the top-left; the headers on top and bottom; and finally ATMega with external oscillator, then the switch button and the ICSP pin headers.
Kicad. From Software To Hardware Part3
Every package of software suite comes with an amount of collateral applications, extensions and/or libraries.
KiCad does the same; but sometimes default components aren’t enough for specific goals.
Thanks to KiCad’s popularity people around the world spent some of their time to enrich the base: so that you can find useful libraries or scheme directly for free on websites. Here some of them (in my opinion the most important):
- KiCADlib.org;
- kicadlibraries.com (contains material for LTSpice too, for electrical circuits analysis);
- ohsec (libraries converted from Eagle to KiCad);
- smisioto (old but good).
Now think you don’t find component you need among default and external or third-part libraries.
Two main solutions show to yourself:
- desperation, with profession abandon or change;
- design your own.
KiCAD. From Software to Hardware Part2
For the first part, click here.
On horizontal bar look at the icon here shown: click to run PCBnew, the embedded PCB editor which to design the circuit mask on.
Editor starts with a black ground.
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KiCAD. From Software to Hardware Part1
We’re talking about one of the most famous, useful and supported software for electronic design automation (EDA).
Other apps or packages are available to do same: Kicad is free (in sense of free software: code is publicly available), and usually at zero-cost, so that you can start with your projects, from simplest to more professional ones, without any other cost.
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