Redraw one of the echo hello-world boards or something equivalent, add (at least) a button and LED (with current-limiting resistor) or equivalent input and output, check the design rules, make it, test it.
Group assignment
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Hello-World Board
The individual assignment for this week was to redraw an echo hello-world board, add (at least) a button and LED (with current-limiting resistor), check the design rules, make it, and test it.
The first step was downloading KiCad from this link. I had never used Kikad before, so we receive a train about how to use it with our Instructor, once we downloaded the program we proceed to download the libraries an load it to the app.
Starting KiCad
Before we can start we downloaded and istalled the libraries for the fablabs from this link
downloaded the file as a zip, when was done we extracted and installed the libraries to KiCad
This is the Window when you load the program.
In my case it appear a file already loaded because I took the captures after the we did the job.... :)
Install the libraries its to easy, you just need to go to preferences menu and make click in the Manage Symbol Libraries menu
a new window will pop up
here you just need to click the + bottom and look where you unzipped the libraries to open and load.
After install the libraries
we used the tool called PCB Layout Editor
When you open that bottom it loads a new window where you can start to create or customize the board you need.
we decided to redraw the
When I was done we the redraw of my board I selected the tool Plot.
I unchecked all the unnecessary layers leaving just the F.cu and the Edge.cuts
selected the folder where to save it and make click in the Plot bottom.
when the gerber files was created we moved to FlatCam to create the code for milling the board.
In FlatCam
I opened the gerber file and started to setup the parameters to mill the board
the first step was to establish the parameters for the tool
After Generate the isolation
I defined the parameters to generate the path over the board with the depth, travel and moves through the different axis.
Milling this board was a kind different because I never used before the software bCNC, and what I can tell about is this an amazing tool.
you can give an eye to the project in this link and how to install in the different OSs becaouse its multiplatform.
