Electronics Production
In this we covered the production of the circuit board and soldering the components.
The circuit board is designed using KiCAD software to produce both schematic and PCB design for printing with the CNC PCB milling machine.
To create the schematic, I have opened KiCAD and created new project which will contain both my schematic and PCB designs. I then opened the schematic editor since is the beginning of the circuit board design before PCB design.
The design is for the obstacle detection PCB with sensors (PIR motion sensore and obstacle avoidence sensor), and the Raspbbery Pi Pico as the micro-controller.
Components
- Raspbbery Pi Pico
- obstacle avoidence sensor
- Motion sensor
- Diod and LED
- Capacitor
- OLED display
- Resistor
- connector (power and display)
I add the components from the components library then connected them to the micro-controller. The images bellow show the design and the pcb in 3D.
3D design view.
To produce PCB from the CNC PCB milling machine, the gerber file need to be generated to be used to generate the gcode that will be used in CNC milling machine to print the circuit board.
The gerber file is imported in the FlatCAM to generate the gcode.
Design files
Schematic
PCB
Gerber
Gcode