Incredible. I had to spend 10 years in industry *plus* Engineering school to learn all of this, soup to nuts. And, now, here it all is, presented for everyone to learn in an easy to access, concise format. Thank you again, Phil!
It's nice to see your credentials in the video. It's something I miss in a lot of videos. I think most people don't mention this because they they want to be humble but I find a lot of value in knowing someone's background. A scientist will have a different perspective than a hobbyist and a hobbyist will have different perspective than someone working in the industry. Someone designing factory floor machinery will have a different perspective from someone designing cost sensitive products. All perspectives are valid and important. it's just nice to know who you're listening to so you can get the best of all worlds.
I know from my experience that: a) People don't present a reason as to why they should know. b) What I did over my lifetime isn't random people's business. c) They would find out eventually if it was important. d) People tend to label you by your accomplishments and they sometimes make incorrect assumptions, I hate that. None of those are "wanting to be humble". Also people either are humble or are not, few people are actively wanting to be humble. People either became humble or did not. The process of becoming humble takes effort itself, but that isn't being humble. What I mean is that humble people don't have to actively stop themselves from bragging. Also it's nice of you to share your opinion :D (even if I wouldn't word it like that, I understand it)
I'm in computer science industry for years, but my dream since I was a child is to design and build REAL devices, you can touch, not only a code. This video opened my eyes, what possibilities exist today! My dream will come true soon!! Many thanks Phil for that!
YAAAY I made my design finally :D a PCB 3DPrinter probe, that's basically a strain gauge and the HX711 alongside a stm32f0 :) this was a great tutorial thank you!
@@PhilsLab Thanks! the parts and shipping sadly got a bit much and I found a mistake in my schematic, but I think I can just fix it with a razor for the first prototype when it arrives! I'm sooo excited and can't wait for it to arrive!
Original two videos really helped me to start with PCB design. Specifically, I like about these videos that they end to end from design to manufacturing. I think, this completion is really important specially for beginners. Thanks!
You are an amazing person! You could have kept the course for a price on udemy but instead you chose to make it free and accessible to everyone. Hats off to you.
Very cool! I am an old timer. I started with the 8 bit 6502 in 1977 then an Apple ][ computer in 1978. I am now retired but still doing DSP with modern chips. I remember solving diirereential equations on my Apple ][ using Apple Pascal. It would take two days to get a solution .. if convergence to a unique solution!!! Thank you !
This is now the most important video in my tech play list. I learned so much. KiCad was a mystery to me. I do think the big pcb manufacturers could do more to make their services accessible. This is a full on detailed design but often you just want a basic pcb to cobble some components together. After this video I realise you can do that with KiCad but till now I never used pcb services because I didn't know how to.
I am in the process of designing my first MCU board using Kicad 6. My project is not STM32 based, but I still find that this content is still extremely helpful.
I was looking into what a Micro Controller was and in 160min of watching this and researching terminology I didn't know, I'm walking away with so much more. Thank you. Subbed.
Yeah I'm still a total noob in terms of hardware design (I've designed/ordered one simple PCB for a hobby project so far). This tutorial definitely inspires me to design a whole MCU project from scratch, instead of using boards like the Arduino or ESP32 DevKit V1. I'm building a multitrack MIDI sequencer, similar to the Cirklon Sequentix. I've made a POC with a Raspberry Pi + PCB and am currently working on a version two with an ESP32. Interesting stuff!
I'm from Brazil, I want to congratulate you on the excellent course, I did everything, I created the board and it works correctly, now we wait for the stm32ide course with c and c++ programming, I follow your studies, your friend from Brazil, Mickael, a big hug
the same degree as what you finished in, electrical and electronics eng. the way you explain things in these tutorials is awesome, gets curiosity flowing again as opposed to listening to slow mono tone lecturers explaining one thing for two hours straight. Here we can see what were doing and why, and actually have something built. awesome, super helpful
Thanks for this. I've recently delved into a role where I can no longer afford to be just "the software guy" and this is a huge help. Loved the bit about schematic notes. Very important, especially when transferring tech from one organization to another. A schematic without notes is like code without comments explaining why the software was designed/written as it was, or requirements with no rationale!
wow thanks for this introduction, now I also want to design my own blue pill! As I already played around a little with Kicad, this tutorial has the perfect speed and also summarizes a lot of important and interesting concepts that improve the design and the design process.
I am a licensed ham radio operator here in the US, but I’ve never done much with the practical application of the electrical theory side of our education. Because of a project I’m working on, and this video, it has really brought to life what had been strictly academic for me up until now! Thank you!
I'm not even a hardware geek, I mostly program and occasionally hack an Arduino, but I watched this all the way through and it made so much hardware design make sense. great video!
I bought both your courses in Fedevel and in Udemy when they were first launched. Though I have this complaint of the videos not available to watch forever on the fedevel platform, which is sad yet I have learned a lot from you. So, Thank You for that and wish you good health. Keep the videos coming on youtube as well. A full course on TH-cam is a gem to be cherished forever. You, making the course free of cost would really help people out there and reach out to more people. Thank You for the good work.
Thank you for your support, Rahul. I understand your qualms r.e. the finite watchtime of the Udemy course (unless you go for download option) - I'm afraid however that isn't under my control.
@@PhilsLab You're welcome. I am new to this particular field and I find it overwhelming to learn on my own with all the online resources. Your video showed me a well-defined path, I'm grateful for that. Keep your videos coming. For Udemy it's fine. I was specifically talking about fedevel and I actually got to know ( _that it's not under your control once you upload the course videos to their platform_ ) when I contacted them as there was some malfunctioning on their side. I appreciate all those fedevel videos for me being able to watch them online. But somewhere in our human heart, we would always love to cherish the beautiful things more and may keep it forever. That was the reason I mentioned of the videos to be watchable just like Udemy does, i.e. forever, once you pay for it. I did opt for the download option but I am kind of afraid that my system may get corrupted in the future so it's always safe to have it online. Whatever may be the platform's negative side, their support team is top-notch. They replied almost instantly and fixed it for now. Thank you for all the videos, keep up the good work and get those videos coming.
Thank you for posting this course. I'm tinkering on an Arduino project that needs a more professional design. This is the solution. 👍The presentation here is clear and easy to follow.
Appreciate the TH-cam session. I often need to re-scale or adopt existing designs - changes to PC board size and I/O port locations (or type). Possibly you could cover that, as a specific episode, in the future.
I cannot thank you enough, this video is both a gem and a lifesaver. For years, I've felt lost in electronic design, not being able to break it down, it just wasn't clear to me. You have opened a window through which I finally see a way ahead. If you are not teaching at some school or private electronics club, it's a loss to a lot of people out there, but thankfully you share an amazing content on-line. The only problem is finding out about your channel, once that is achieved, it's a keeper. I have two questions for you: 1 - Could you consider a video on oscilloscopes, with an emphasis on serial protocol readings and noise reduction? I have done a quick search and haven't found such a video in your channel, and it could be quite helpful for a lot of people, me included. 2 - Do you accept design or review orders? In other words, can someone hire you to tackle those subjects? Or perhaps you could suggest someone you know who would do it. Sometimes there isn't enough time to go through the learning process for more urgent projects, and being able to hire someone that is already experienced would be a massive help. Many thanks for your generosity in sharing your knowledge, either charging for it or not (which you certainly deserve). There are not many people that I admire, but you are in that list. I wish my teachers would have been able to do such a good job as you do.
Wonderful tutorial, Phil. Just the right level of detail for the ambitious hobbyist (and no doubt entry-level professionals) like myself. Really appreciate the effort you put into your content, it's presented very clearly, and I really appreciate the way you explain your reasoning for _why_ you're doing particular things, rather than just saying "do this, because". You've definitely earned yourself a sub from me!
I already know how to do this, but I still like to watch videos like this as both a refresher and to pick up tips on doing things in ways I hadn't thought of before. Thanks for an informative video with no rock concert in the background!
Your videos are amazing, thanks to all of your videos I have been able to produce a functional PCB, is it likely perfect? No! But it's massively better than if I had gone and done it with the knowledge I thought I had! It's not very often that I find someone on youtube that posts video after video of just pure knowledge source, kudos to you, the way you teach is amazing.
I had no idea software like this existed. You make it look easy and to be fair for simple it is by the looks of it. I knew the PCB houses existed but never put two and two together for some reason LOL. The end cost is also crazy cheap!
Thank you, Phil! This tutorial is incredibly helpful for beginners starting with STM32 PCB design. I really appreciate all the practical tips and best practices you share.
In today's world of parts shortages, choosing your footprints will probably involve checking to see what size packages the required parts are actually available in. You might for example find that you'd have to go with 08' sized capacitors and resistors because they were not available in the 04' or 06' sized packages. Similarly the microcontroller might be available in a QFN footprint and not a QFTP package. Of course there are certain pad layouts that can fit multiple sized parts. In the case of the microcontroller, it might be possible to 'nest' footprints so two different packages could be fit on the same layout.
Huge thanks for making this great tutorial, Phil! I followed along and ordered 5 of these boards from JLC, and guess what -- they're working! It's such an amazement, considering I've never gone any further from various development boards. Now I'm thinking of finishing one of my little projects and actually transfer it to a PCB!
(Actually I also ordered SMT service from JLC as well, which is a little pricey but saved a lot of fuss. I'm looking to get a hot air station and do my own soldering next up :D )
Awesome Phil. What a create tutorial. I come from using Eagle and Diptrace. I noticed Kicad has come a long way in recent years. Thanks for the tutorial. It really helped me out getting started back with this version of Kicad again. I see the community is really large now too.
Hi, awesome course where nothing is missing - there nothing but a real life example to understand all the little tricks that make the difference, thanks Phil.
This tutorial has been one of my most handy tools for PCB design and production. The content is very well-curated. With the help of your videos, I was able to design, manufacture and test my boards seamlessly in less than a week!! Thanks, Phil.
Wow, this is a goldmine. Far more useful and to the point than what I learned in college. Will be supporting your patreon. Keep up the amazing tutorials.
Awesome tutorial, I learned a lot. I was especially interested in the way you did the ground planes. I watched another tutorial a month ago when I first started with KiCad that suggested using ground planes on both the back and front, so that is what I've been doing. With that, for most ground connections I've been letting the front ground mask make most of the ground connections, except where space was limited. I'm currently working on a mixed digital / analog design with a Teensy 4.1 controller board, and plan to go back and adjust a few things based on what I've now learned.
Hey Phil, thank you for your fantastic videos. I started PCB design as a hobby this year and with the help of your YT videos and your mixed-signal course, I was able to design a class D amp from part selection to production. And I would not have been able to complete the project while learning so much. Without dedicated teachers like you, (and many other great content creators) this would not be possible. Thank you! Best Fabian ps: Would love to see a video regarding USB-C standards and PD implementation.
+1 - It feels like a great time to be getting into electronics design and fabrication as a hobbyist, compared to just 5-10 years ago. The EDA software has come a long way, and there are excellent free/OSS products like KiCAD. The on-demand PCB manufacturing space is getting competitive, and offers low-volume, affordable manufacturing and even assembly services, there are many, comprehensive, online parts retailers that also offer low-volume, affordable pricing. Fast, low-power MCUs are available in all shapes and sizes, speeds and capabilities, again very affordably, and the OSS/free software toolchains for programming them are just as diverse and powerful. Finally, the content creator economy has helped produce high quality tutorials like this one from Phil, and many others, that provide the knowledge to wield and utilise all these offerings effectively. It really ties a bow on the whole endeavour, and I can't say enough about how much I appreciate this - and judging from the comments, I'm far from alone!
Very helpful video, Phil. Especially appreciate the sequential and complete walk-through and the detailed rationale for the various design decisions. Thank you.
Normal person can’t make this type of video. Only professional could. But Phil you are more than a professional you are my PCB Jesus Christ. The God. The Legend.
Something i have learned by doing is that if you have a lot of connections in the pcb design, you can put all horizontal connections on one copper layer and all vertical ones on a different layer. This drastically reduces the amount of vias needed
Thank you very much for share this course free to everyone, this will help to learn and gain knowledge people like me who can rarely afford to bye it. Big thanks☺
This video worked out great. I had my first boards made and everything worked great. I am watching a second time months later ( cause I forgot most everything ! ) to make my second board. Thanks.
Thanks for producing these types of videos, especially with KiCad. Your videos have been very helpful in designing my first PCBs. Hoping to do my first PCB with a microcontroller soon -- when STM32s are back in stock!
thanks a lot, man, this is very helpful, I did get a hardware design job 6 months ago and I was not very knowledgeable on the PCB design field, your videos were very helpful and got me through my first design. very appreciated
Brilliant. Thanks a lot. I am just a hobbyist and have always in the past used EasyEDA due to the autorouting and then proceeded to 'clean up' the obvious shortcomings in the autorouter but I can see, thanks to your video here, perhaps routing myself might not be the bear I always thought it would be by following the basic procedures you outline. 👍
Excellent video... I'm migrating from Pulsonix, where you get a bunch of jibberish, a dongle, a sketchy manual, and no help. So this is a dream come true!
oh yeah. getting done programming a high performance CNC general purpose controller, and I'm just using dev boards to interface with the controller. this might be the video that gets me making a PCB for it, which will come in really handy cuz my need for 5v+ outputs has me soldering tens of through-hole transistors in perfboard like a complete goon. thank you for making these videos man.
Thank you very much! A data-rich course, requiring many replays of key points, as you would expect for such. I have wanted to produce my own PCBs for some time but now I have the confidence to go ahead. Thanks again.
@@PhilsLab ✂ I cut University. Only money for taxes, and formulas that don't help you at all. Years lost to learn what "npn" and "pnp" are. The theory of materials for semiconductors and nothing practical.
This tutorial is excellent! I had always wanted to feel comfortable using a tool like KiCAD and had never found a video describing the features/functions so well, from the view of an experienced professional like you. Thank you!! I wanted to ask, when you place the Vias to jump over other traces, you said you make the Vias a bit larger; what size do you usually make them, as well as the ones next to the large Ground pads, which are also larger than the rest?
Excellent video. I don't share your enthusiasm for STM32 chips though - they are basically unobtainium and have been so for some time. That situation isn't likely to change much in the foreseeable future.
That was very good and informative!! I have been using KiCad for 6 years now and still learned a couple of things. Wish this had been around back when I started ;) Very concise explanations too, cheers!
Hi Phil, as an EE student, I feel like I am getting so much from your videos, showing how all the material from uni can be applied in the real world for real projects. It really motivates me to keep learning. What were your resources? Is it all from reading datasheets and application notes or do you have a book / books you can recommend for (general) embedded circuit design? Currently reading `Mastering STM32` but I feel like I need another book for the hardware.
Hi Felix, Thanks a lot - I'm glad to hear that :) It's from a mix of various resoures (app notes, datasheets, books, videos, etc.). The best way to learn is to just design/build projects and figure out what you need along the way.
Excellent tutorial, one of the very best I've seen, thanks a lot. KiCad is a great piece of software, but it is so complex that for me it is hard to figure out things all by myself.
Connecting NRST to a grounded capacitor initially made me think the reset was being wired low. That capacitor should charge from NRST (which has an internal pull-up resistor) until it reaches capacity and then stop, leaving NRST high. This is effectively a power-on reset with a delay. Mentioning this in case anyone else was alarmed by this.
Thank you very much, your course is really excellent! There is a ton of very usefull tips and recommandations. Thanks to you, I'm finally on the road to be better at pcb design!
God! What a good channel this is. I hope I can learn a lot and start designing my own PCB. Thanks a lot for the effort you put into making this content, it's truly appreciated.
Ive been routing PCBs since 1979, using tape, then CAD - this was one of the best tutorials I have seen. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you very much, Stuart!
Incredible. I had to spend 10 years in industry *plus* Engineering school to learn all of this, soup to nuts. And, now, here it all is, presented for everyone to learn in an easy to access, concise format. Thank you again, Phil!
It'd be much harder to get involved in designing your own PCB without videos like this.
Thank you Phil!
Thanks for watching - glad you liked the video!
It's nice to see your credentials in the video. It's something I miss in a lot of videos. I think most people don't mention this because they they want to be humble but I find a lot of value in knowing someone's background. A scientist will have a different perspective than a hobbyist and a hobbyist will have different perspective than someone working in the industry. Someone designing factory floor machinery will have a different perspective from someone designing cost sensitive products. All perspectives are valid and important. it's just nice to know who you're listening to so you can get the best of all worlds.
I know from my experience that:
a) People don't present a reason as to why they should know.
b) What I did over my lifetime isn't random people's business.
c) They would find out eventually if it was important.
d) People tend to label you by your accomplishments and they sometimes make incorrect assumptions, I hate that.
None of those are "wanting to be humble". Also people either are humble or are not, few people are actively wanting to be humble. People either became humble or did not. The process of becoming humble takes effort itself, but that isn't being humble. What I mean is that humble people don't have to actively stop themselves from bragging.
Also it's nice of you to share your opinion :D (even if I wouldn't word it like that, I understand it)
I'm in computer science industry for years, but my dream since I was a child is to design and build REAL devices, you can touch, not only a code. This video opened my eyes, what possibilities exist today! My dream will come true soon!! Many thanks Phil for that!
YAAAY I made my design finally :D
a PCB 3DPrinter probe, that's basically a strain gauge and the HX711 alongside a stm32f0 :)
this was a great tutorial thank you!
Awesome, congrats on your design!
@@PhilsLab Thanks! the parts and shipping sadly got a bit much and I found a mistake in my schematic, but I think I can just fix it with a razor for the first prototype when it arrives!
I'm sooo excited and can't wait for it to arrive!
Original two videos really helped me to start with PCB design. Specifically, I like about these videos that they end to end from design to manufacturing. I think, this completion is really important specially for beginners. Thanks!
Thanks, Sergey - glad to hear that!
Brother this is incredible. I am beginner in PCB design it helps me alot. You have covered each topic in detail. Thanx❤
You are an amazing person! You could have kept the course for a price on udemy but instead you chose to make it free and accessible to everyone. Hats off to you.
Very cool! I am an old timer. I started with the 8 bit 6502 in 1977 then an Apple ][ computer in 1978. I am now retired but still doing DSP with modern chips. I remember solving diirereential equations on my Apple ][ using Apple Pascal. It would take two days to get a solution .. if convergence to a unique solution!!! Thank you !
This is now the most important video in my tech play list. I learned so much. KiCad was a mystery to me.
I do think the big pcb manufacturers could do more to make their services accessible.
This is a full on detailed design but often you just want a basic pcb to cobble some components together. After this video I realise you can do that with KiCad but till now I never used pcb services because I didn't know how to.
Thank you for making the course free Phil! You are amazing.
You're very welcome - thanks for watching :)
do we get certificate upon completion of this course?
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I am in the process of designing my first MCU board using Kicad 6. My project is not STM32 based, but I still find that this content is still extremely helpful.
What MCU are you using?
@@wiicchooo It's an NXP processor. IMX RT-1021
I was looking into what a Micro Controller was and in 160min of watching this and researching terminology I didn't know, I'm walking away with so much more. Thank you. Subbed.
Thanks, Chaz - glad you found it helpful!
Yeah I'm still a total noob in terms of hardware design (I've designed/ordered one simple PCB for a hobby project so far). This tutorial definitely inspires me to design a whole MCU project from scratch, instead of using boards like the Arduino or ESP32 DevKit V1. I'm building a multitrack MIDI sequencer, similar to the Cirklon Sequentix. I've made a POC with a Raspberry Pi + PCB and am currently working on a version two with an ESP32. Interesting stuff!
Haven't seen the video yet, but the fact that you've moved it to YT for free gives it a like. Big thanks.
Excellent course, and I could here every word clearly without having to rewind multiple times! Well produced, Phil.
I'm from Brazil, I want to congratulate you on the excellent course, I did everything, I created the board and it works correctly, now we wait for the stm32ide course with c and c++ programming, I follow your studies, your friend from Brazil, Mickael, a big hug
the same degree as what you finished in, electrical and electronics eng. the way you explain things in these tutorials is awesome, gets curiosity flowing again as opposed to listening to slow mono tone lecturers explaining one thing for two hours straight. Here we can see what were doing and why, and actually have something built. awesome, super helpful
Thanks a lot for your kind comment!
If only every datasheet had such a clear step by step guide like this video. Very well done
Thanks a lot, Rian!
Thanks for this. I've recently delved into a role where I can no longer afford to be just "the software guy" and this is a huge help. Loved the bit about schematic notes. Very important, especially when transferring tech from one organization to another. A schematic without notes is like code without comments explaining why the software was designed/written as it was, or requirements with no rationale!
Thanks, Scott! Exactly as you say - it's always good to document work properly, regardless of the format (hardware, software, ...).
wow thanks for this introduction, now I also want to design my own blue pill! As I already played around a little with Kicad, this tutorial has the perfect speed and also summarizes a lot of important and interesting concepts that improve the design and the design process.
I am a licensed ham radio operator here in the US, but I’ve never done much with the practical application of the electrical theory side of our education. Because of a project I’m working on, and this video, it has really brought to life what had been strictly academic for me up until now! Thank you!
I'm not even a hardware geek, I mostly program and occasionally hack an Arduino, but I watched this all the way through and it made so much hardware design make sense. great video!
Thank you for watching!
This is a great tutorial to start the PCB design journey !
I bought both your courses in Fedevel and in Udemy when they were first launched.
Though I have this complaint of the videos not available to watch forever on the fedevel platform, which is sad yet I have learned a lot from you. So, Thank You for that and wish you good health.
Keep the videos coming on youtube as well. A full course on TH-cam is a gem to be cherished forever. You, making the course free of cost would really help people out there and reach out to more people.
Thank You for the good work.
Thank you for your support, Rahul. I understand your qualms r.e. the finite watchtime of the Udemy course (unless you go for download option) - I'm afraid however that isn't under my control.
@@PhilsLab You're welcome.
I am new to this particular field and I find it overwhelming to learn on my own with all the online resources. Your video showed me a well-defined path, I'm grateful for that. Keep your videos coming.
For Udemy it's fine.
I was specifically talking about fedevel and I actually got to know ( _that it's not under your control once you upload the course videos to their platform_ ) when I contacted them as there was some malfunctioning on their side.
I appreciate all those fedevel videos for me being able to watch them online. But somewhere in our human heart, we would always love to cherish the beautiful things more and may keep it forever. That was the reason I mentioned of the videos to be watchable just like Udemy does, i.e. forever, once you pay for it.
I did opt for the download option but I am kind of afraid that my system may get corrupted in the future so it's always safe to have it online. Whatever may be the platform's negative side, their support team is top-notch. They replied almost instantly and fixed it for now.
Thank you for all the videos, keep up the good work and get those videos coming.
Learnt more from this video than my 2 month microcontroller uni course. Thank you for sharing, will look more into your videos!
Thank you for posting this course. I'm tinkering on an Arduino project that needs a more professional design. This is the solution. 👍The presentation here is clear and easy to follow.
Appreciate the TH-cam session.
I often need to re-scale or adopt existing designs - changes to PC board size and I/O port locations (or type).
Possibly you could cover that, as a specific episode, in the future.
I can't describe how grateful I am for this video. It's filled with content up to the brim and there is no cheap talking. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for this course Phil! This helped me a lot to understand more about PCB design and of course, I now understand how to use KiCAD!
Phil, your content is astoundingly useful, first year in EEE here, thank you.
Thank you, Jake!
I cannot thank you enough, this video is both a gem and a lifesaver. For years, I've felt lost in electronic design, not being able to break it down, it just wasn't clear to me. You have opened a window through which I finally see a way ahead. If you are not teaching at some school or private electronics club, it's a loss to a lot of people out there, but thankfully you share an amazing content on-line. The only problem is finding out about your channel, once that is achieved, it's a keeper.
I have two questions for you:
1 - Could you consider a video on oscilloscopes, with an emphasis on serial protocol readings and noise reduction? I have done a quick search and haven't found such a video in your channel, and it could be quite helpful for a lot of people, me included.
2 - Do you accept design or review orders? In other words, can someone hire you to tackle those subjects? Or perhaps you could suggest someone you know who would do it. Sometimes there isn't enough time to go through the learning process for more urgent projects, and being able to hire someone that is already experienced would be a massive help.
Many thanks for your generosity in sharing your knowledge, either charging for it or not (which you certainly deserve). There are not many people that I admire, but you are in that list. I wish my teachers would have been able to do such a good job as you do.
Wonderful tutorial, Phil. Just the right level of detail for the ambitious hobbyist (and no doubt entry-level professionals) like myself. Really appreciate the effort you put into your content, it's presented very clearly, and I really appreciate the way you explain your reasoning for _why_ you're doing particular things, rather than just saying "do this, because". You've definitely earned yourself a sub from me!
Thank you very much, David!
You deserve more recognition. Your contribution is essential to all that hope to succeed in the design of a pcb layout.
Thank you!
I already know how to do this, but I still like to watch videos like this as both a refresher and to pick up tips on doing things in ways I hadn't thought of before. Thanks for an informative video with no rock concert in the background!
Glad to hear that - thanks for watching!
Your videos are amazing, thanks to all of your videos I have been able to produce a functional PCB, is it likely perfect? No! But it's massively better than if I had gone and done it with the knowledge I thought I had! It's not very often that I find someone on youtube that posts video after video of just pure knowledge source, kudos to you, the way you teach is amazing.
I had no idea software like this existed. You make it look easy and to be fair for simple it is by the looks of it. I knew the PCB houses existed but never put two and two together for some reason LOL. The end cost is also crazy cheap!
Thank you, Phil! This tutorial is incredibly helpful for beginners starting with STM32 PCB design. I really appreciate all the practical tips and best practices you share.
In today's world of parts shortages, choosing your footprints will probably involve checking to see what size packages the required parts are actually available in. You might for example find that you'd have to go with 08' sized capacitors and resistors because they were not available in the 04' or 06' sized packages. Similarly the microcontroller might be available in a QFN footprint and not a QFTP package. Of course there are certain pad layouts that can fit multiple sized parts. In the case of the microcontroller, it might be possible to 'nest' footprints so two different packages could be fit on the same layout.
Huge thanks for making this great tutorial, Phil! I followed along and ordered 5 of these boards from JLC, and guess what -- they're working! It's such an amazement, considering I've never gone any further from various development boards. Now I'm thinking of finishing one of my little projects and actually transfer it to a PCB!
(Actually I also ordered SMT service from JLC as well, which is a little pricey but saved a lot of fuss. I'm looking to get a hot air station and do my own soldering next up :D )
That's awesome - well done! :) Hope all goes well with your future projects.
Awesome Phil. What a create tutorial. I come from using Eagle and Diptrace. I noticed Kicad has come a long way in recent years. Thanks for the tutorial. It really helped me out getting started back with this version of Kicad again. I see the community is really large now too.
Thank you! I had to use Eagle at my first job and really didn't like it. Great that KiCad is around and (in my eyes) far more capable!
Hi, awesome course where nothing is missing - there nothing but a real life example to understand all the little tricks that make the difference, thanks Phil.
This tutorial has been one of my most handy tools for PCB design and production.
The content is very well-curated. With the help of your videos, I was able to design, manufacture and test my boards seamlessly in less than a week!!
Thanks, Phil.
This is one of the best videos I have watched recently. This is what YT should be like
Thank you very much, Fritz!
These long stm 32 tutorials are what I always look forward to from you. Thank you so much....and I hope you do something about can bus as you promised
Thank you, Brian. CAN bus (among many other topics) is definitely on the list - just need to find more time to finish it I'm afraid...
Wow, this is a goldmine. Far more useful and to the point than what I learned in college. Will be supporting your patreon. Keep up the amazing tutorials.
Thank you very much for your support, Boston!
Thanks a lot for this. This is really useful for the fresher eng. student such as me just a day before their practical KiCAD exam.
You're very welcome!
Woohoo! Made it through! Thanks! I plan to review it later when actually making a PCB. Hopefully making a PCB soon!!!
Awesome tutorial, I learned a lot. I was especially interested in the way you did the ground planes. I watched another tutorial a month ago when I first started with KiCad that suggested using ground planes on both the back and front, so that is what I've been doing. With that, for most ground connections I've been letting the front ground mask make most of the ground connections, except where space was limited.
I'm currently working on a mixed digital / analog design with a Teensy 4.1 controller board, and plan to go back and adjust a few things based on what I've now learned.
Hey Phil, thank you for your fantastic videos. I started PCB design as a hobby this year and with the help of your YT videos and your mixed-signal course, I was able to design a class D amp from part selection to production. And I would not have been able to complete the project while learning so much. Without dedicated teachers like you, (and many other great content creators) this would not be possible. Thank you!
Best Fabian
ps: Would love to see a video regarding USB-C standards and PD implementation.
+1 - It feels like a great time to be getting into electronics design and fabrication as a hobbyist, compared to just 5-10 years ago. The EDA software has come a long way, and there are excellent free/OSS products like KiCAD.
The on-demand PCB manufacturing space is getting competitive, and offers low-volume, affordable manufacturing and even assembly services, there are many, comprehensive, online parts retailers that also offer low-volume, affordable pricing.
Fast, low-power MCUs are available in all shapes and sizes, speeds and capabilities, again very affordably, and the OSS/free software toolchains for programming them are just as diverse and powerful.
Finally, the content creator economy has helped produce high quality tutorials like this one from Phil, and many others, that provide the knowledge to wield and utilise all these offerings effectively. It really ties a bow on the whole endeavour, and I can't say enough about how much I appreciate this - and judging from the comments, I'm far from alone!
thanks for making it available free. i was overloaded with things to learn and couldn't afford more courses
I wanted a compact course on Kicad, and you delivered the best in one video. Thank you.
Thank you, glad to hear that!
Built a STM32F078VBTx LQFP100 breakout board based off of this video. This material was hugely informative in that design process. Thanks Phil!
Very helpful video, Phil. Especially appreciate the sequential and complete walk-through and the detailed rationale for the various design decisions. Thank you.
Thank you very much, Darin.
Normal person can’t make this type of video. Only professional could. But Phil you are more than a professional you are my PCB Jesus Christ. The God. The Legend.
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Something i have learned by doing is that if you have a lot of connections in the pcb design, you can put all horizontal connections on one copper layer and all vertical ones on a different layer.
This drastically reduces the amount of vias needed
Thank you very much for share this course free to everyone, this will help to learn and gain knowledge people like me who can rarely afford to bye it. Big thanks☺
This is amazing and will be an invaluable reference piece. Thank you.
Thanks for watching! :)
This video worked out great. I had my first boards made and everything worked great. I am watching a second time months later ( cause I forgot most everything ! ) to make my second board. Thanks.
Thanks for producing these types of videos, especially with KiCad. Your videos have been very helpful in designing my first PCBs. Hoping to do my first PCB with a microcontroller soon -- when STM32s are back in stock!
You're very welcome. Hope all goes well with your first MCU-based PCB!
I’ve just stumbled across this course and before I knew it and hour and forty had passed. A very good piece of work.
thanks a lot, man, this is very helpful, I did get a hardware design job 6 months ago and I was not very knowledgeable on the PCB design field, your videos were very helpful and got me through my first design. very appreciated
You're very welcome - glad to hear the videos have been helpful for your job!
This tutorial is just superb, so much information in under two hours!
Thank you very much for watching, Mick!
it wouldve been great if you share how to use certain capacitor with calculations, it'll help a lot in design.
I remeber watch the previous versions of this. So glad i found this. Thanks for making it free
Many thanks Phil, for making this free as well as continuing to use both kicad & altium
Thank you for watching :)
I first came across your channel due to kicad video
Brilliant. Thanks a lot. I am just a hobbyist and have always in the past used EasyEDA due to the autorouting and then proceeded to 'clean up' the obvious shortcomings in the autorouter but I can see, thanks to your video here, perhaps routing myself might not be the bear I always thought it would be by following the basic procedures you outline. 👍
Excellent video... I'm migrating from Pulsonix, where you get a bunch of jibberish, a dongle, a sketchy manual, and no help. So this is a dream come true!
Very nice video, superb narration, clear instructions, not too much detail and not too little, thanks
Thank you very much!
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oh yeah. getting done programming a high performance CNC general purpose controller, and I'm just using dev boards to interface with the controller. this might be the video that gets me making a PCB for it, which will come in really handy cuz my need for 5v+ outputs has me soldering tens of through-hole transistors in perfboard like a complete goon.
thank you for making these videos man.
why not buy a 3d printer controller and modify it? i suppose there should be open source cnc controller boards too
Thank you very much! A data-rich course, requiring many replays of key points, as you would expect for such.
I have wanted to produce my own PCBs for some time but now I have the confidence to go ahead. Thanks again.
Wow, thanks for making this available!
You're very welcome, Garret!
I learned more from this than in 3 Years of university
Glad to hear that!
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I cut University. Only money for taxes, and formulas that don't help you at all. Years lost to learn what "npn" and "pnp" are. The theory of materials for semiconductors and nothing practical.
This tutorial is excellent! I had always wanted to feel comfortable using a tool like KiCAD and had never found a video describing the features/functions so well, from the view of an experienced professional like you. Thank you!! I wanted to ask, when you place the Vias to jump over other traces, you said you make the Vias a bit larger; what size do you usually make them, as well as the ones next to the large Ground pads, which are also larger than the rest?
This made a giant leap for me - thank you for your excellent tutorial!
Excellent video. I don't share your enthusiasm for STM32 chips though - they are basically unobtainium and have been so for some time. That situation isn't likely to change much in the foreseeable future.
Thanks! I would LOVE to be enrolled as a student at Cambridge University!!!
That was very good and informative!! I have been using KiCad for 6 years now and still learned a couple of things. Wish this had been around back when I started ;) Very concise explanations too, cheers!
This is one of the best KiCAD tutorial out there, thanks a lot!
Thank you, Aman!
Hi Phil, as an EE student, I feel like I am getting so much from your videos, showing how all the material from uni can be applied in the real world for real projects. It really motivates me to keep learning. What were your resources? Is it all from reading datasheets and application notes or do you have a book / books you can recommend for (general) embedded circuit design? Currently reading `Mastering STM32` but I feel like I need another book for the hardware.
Hi Felix, Thanks a lot - I'm glad to hear that :) It's from a mix of various resoures (app notes, datasheets, books, videos, etc.). The best way to learn is to just design/build projects and figure out what you need along the way.
Excellent tutorial, one of the very best I've seen, thanks a lot. KiCad is a great piece of software, but it is so complex that for me it is hard to figure out things all by myself.
Thank you, Jonas!
This is a kind of awesome tutorial video. I hope you have a video about coding this board.
Connecting NRST to a grounded capacitor initially made me think the reset was being wired low. That capacitor should charge from NRST (which has an internal pull-up resistor) until it reaches capacity and then stop, leaving NRST high. This is effectively a power-on reset with a delay.
Mentioning this in case anyone else was alarmed by this.
Bardzo dziękuję. Bardzo wartościowy materiał :)
Regards from Poland :)
Dzięki za oglądanie :)
The king, I wish I had this video a couple of years ago
This is the best tutorial on KiCad, it got me started very quickly to design my own pcb. Thank you Phil!
Thank you for watching!
@@PhilsLab Your tutorials are great, I designed my first pcb only based on your TH-cam video's!
The way you teach this stuff is impressive! highly talented.
Thank you very much, Rami!
Thank you very much, your course is really excellent! There is a ton of very usefull tips and recommandations. Thanks to you, I'm finally on the road to be better at pcb design!
Very helpful. Thank you . I love your guides about these topics, especially the layers too. The button help is nice too.
God! What a good channel this is. I hope I can learn a lot and start designing my own PCB. Thanks a lot for the effort you put into making this content, it's truly appreciated.
This is an awesome resource, and so well-executed. Thanks for sharing this gratis!
Thanks for putting this course up on YT. Power packed!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you Phil.
What video would you recommend to watch next from your channel after this basic introduction?
Wonderful content and very pleasant to watch. Please keep up this great work, as I see it benefit a lot of people!
Thank you very much, Jakob!
Excited to follow this tutorial!
Reached the end of the course. Was worth all the time! Thanks again. Can't wait for my PCB to arrive and start soldering!
Very good video that covers all the steps of making a PCB. Thanks..
Thanks for the Tutorial! Can you please explain on how to generate the BoM for the board to be manufactured by JLCPCB? Thanks