(Sponsored) KiCad STM32 + USB + Buck Converter PCB Design and JLCPCB Assembly - Phil's Lab #11
What it is
A roughly three-hour screen recording of designing a barebones STM32F4 board in KiCad, covering schematic, four-layer layout and routing, USB and a buck converter. It ends with ordering manufacture and assembly through JLCPCB.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN people recommend it as a real, end-to-end PCB design walkthrough that beginners successfully imitated to learn KiCad.
- 3 people recommended it
- 3 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2021, last 2022
What HN commenters said
“I really enjoy this series of videos on YouTube where someone whips one up live over the course of 3 hours.”
Live PCB layout walkthrough showing best practices.
stevenpetryk, 2021-02 · Recommendation · in “How to design a motherboard for your electronics project”
“successfully imitated this guy's tutorials”
Tutorials the commenter successfully followed to learn PCB design.
malwrar, 2021-10 · Recommendation · in “Teach Me PCB”
“For anyone looking to learn KiCad, I used this video tutorial”
Video tutorial used to learn KiCad.
fpgaminer, 2021-12 · Recommendation · in “KiCad 6.0.0”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: kicad, stm32, pcb layout, usb, buck converter, jlcpcb
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