January 2018. Hello World! ECAD design and prototyping a functioning physical circuit board is a new experience for me, though in years past I’ve worked with a couple of PCB designers. I’ve designed products using SolidWorks (MCAD) for a number of years and now there is SolidWorks PCB, which I’m just beginning to use. Pretty cool stuff.
I watched the videos about KiCad and the Raspberry Pi addon board. After the first, I had to watch the rest. Now I’m excited about building and programming this project! This looks to me that learning electronics over the next few weeks will be a very enjoyable experience!
Welcome Mark! It sounds like you are off to a good start. Since you are just starting out, the Equipment and Resources categories of the Forum might be useful. Otherwise any questions, just ask
Thank you, Steve. I’ve spent the past couple of days learning about diodes and resistors and I did follow your links. Today I purchased a RaspberryPi and am learning about it so I can make use of the boards produced in the lessons. I found the suggested soldering tools on Amazon and will have them in a few days. I think I’ll order an Arduino also, since I found it expands the RaspberryPi capabilities. I also got my SolidWorks PCB up and running yesterday. I’ll use it for this course. Lots of little things getting done!
