Overview

The transcript summarizes a lecture on electronics design automation (EDA) tools and workflows for designing printed circuit boards (PCBs). It provides an overview of key electronic components and their functions, followed by a tour of EDA software packages for schematic capture, PCB layout, simulation and output. The lecture highlights benefits of open-source tools like KiCad, as well as emerging browser-based options like SVGPCB. It concludes with a discussion of affordable test equipment and assignments focused on gaining hands-on experience with the full electronics development process.

Assignment

group assignment:

use the test equipment in your lab to observe the operation of a microcontroller circuit board send a PCB out to a board house

individual assignment:

use an EDA tool to design a development board to interact and communicate with an embedded microcontroller, produce it, and test it
extra credit: try another design workflow
extra credit: design a case for it
extra credit: simulate its operation

WorkFlow

Making 3Dmodel

Rhinoceros8

OS: Windows 11

I have two daughters and as they grew up and their chairs got smaller, I decided to make a chair for them.

The current child's chair was measured and it was considered as one size larger, with dimensions of 400mm x 300mm x 450mm.

The current child's chair was measured and it was considered as one size larger, with dimensions of 400mm x 300mm x 450mm.

Making G-code

Printing Model

Equipment specifications

Item:Material Extrusion 3Dprinter

Manufacturer:Slab

Model number:GEM1000S

Material:PLA pellet