Knowledge base

This page gathers useful information regarding PCB design and manufacturing. Help improving it be supplying instructables for others.

• Components database
• Purchasing of parts
• PCB design guidelines
• Create masks for uv exposure
• Etching PCBs
• Foam Etching PCBs
• Applying solder mask to PCBs
• Make a multi-PCB panel
• Professional hand soldering
• KiCAD Tutorial
• EAGLE Tutorial

• Install Node-red

Autodesk provides free student/education access to it's PCB design software EAGLE. An open-source alternative is KiCAD. There are good instructions on how to use both of them on the internet, e.g. this guide to EAGLE from SparkFun Electronics.

• SparkFun Electronics and Adafruit provide quite comprehensive archives of tutorials regarding electronics.
• Dave Jones' Electronics Engineering Video Blog (EEVblog) is always worth a view.