A magic tour to printed circuit board (PCB) design with KiCad. Guest talk at NTU Open Source Society on 9th Oct 2015.

2. Lumos!

3. Wand-Lighting Charm

4. LED

6. Surface-Mount Device
(SMD)

7. Surface-Mount Device
(SMD)

8. KiCad EDA
A Cross Platform and Open Source Electronics Design
Automation Suite

10. Complete Process

11. 1. Create the schematics

12. 2. Electrical rules check

13. 3. Generate the netlist

14. 3. Generate the netlist

15. 4. Assign footprint

16. 5. Edit PCB

17. 5. Edit PCB

18. 5. Edit PCB
• F.Cu - Front Copper
• B.Cu - Back Copper
• F.SilkS - Front Silk Screen
• B.SilkS - Back Silk Screen
• Edge.Cuts - Edge of the board

19. 6. Generate gerber and drill
files

20. Example: Arduino Mini Pro