Learn to Design Your Own Boards
Learn how to design your own Arduino-like board and gain essential skills in electronics. Use Altium Designer software to draw schematics, route PCBs, and generate manufacturing documentation. This comprehensive course is suitable for college students, hardware design engineers, and beginners/hobbyists. By the end, you’ll have the knowledge to create professional-grade boards and even manufacture them yourself. Start your journey into the world of board design and open doors to exciting opportunities in the electronics industry.
What you’ll learn
- After this course, you will design your own Arduino like board.
Learning a basic board design is essential for everyone who would like to work in electronics or who would like to design electronic boards or products. Learning board design in the right software can open you door into many companies, help you to get a well paid job and can be used to design very complex and advanced boards.
Design a Real Board and Learn Essentials of Using Altium Designer
– Draw your own schematic
– Route your PCB and do layout
– Generate documentation needed to manufacture your PCB
Altium Designer is a Powerful Software
During this course you will learn how to use Altium Designer software. Altium Designer is a professional software used to design all kind of boards, from very simple ones to motherboards or servers. It is one of the most used software for electronic design. Learning Altium is useful for everyone planning or already working in electronics.
Contents and Overview
You will start with Arduino Uno reference schematic. You will learn how to re-draw the schematic, modify it, you will learn how to improve it and how to do PCB layout. The course videos are step-by-step and even if you are new in electronics or you have never used Altium Designer before, by repeating these steps, you will design your own board. By the end of this course, you will create all the necessary documents needed to manufacture the board.
Within 15 hours you will learn how to:
– Draw schematic, including tips for component selection and important circuits
– Create components, draw schematic symbols and footprints
– Place components into your PCB
– Route PCB and useful tips about layout
– Create 3D model of your board
– Create board variants with different components fitted / not fitted
– Create Bill of Material (BOM)
– Create assembly drawings showing position of components on the board
– Generate Gerbers, Pick and Place, Drill file and other files needed for manufacturing
– Prepare professional documents needed to manufacture your PCB and assemble your board
– Bring your board to life, flash firmware and run a simple LED Blinky example
For everyone interested, the manufacturing documents created during this course can be used to build your board. Simply use PCB manufacturing data to get your PCB, buy components from Digikey and solder them by yourself.
Enjoy this course 🙂
Who this course is for:
- College / University students: During this course you will learn how to work in Altium Designer. Altium is one of the most used software in companies which are designing electronic boards or products. Knowing how to work in Altium can give you an advantage when applying for a job. As a college / university student, you may be able to get a free license of Altium Designer.
- Junior / Senior hardware design engineers: During this course you will go through complete process of designing an electronic board. You will learn all the steps exactly the way as they are done in a professional company. After this course you will know everything essential to use Altium Designer in your job. This course can be very useful when you are starting with Altium Designer or when you are moving to Altium Designer from a different CAD system.
- Beginners, Hobbyists: If you build your own electronic circuits using wires or breadboards and you have ever wanted to transfer your circuits into a real board or real product, this course can help you. During this course you will learn how you can design your own boards.
