Starting the KiCad project and importing components

Originally published at: https://contextualelectronics.com/topic/starting-the-kicad-project-and-importing-components/

In this video we create the project in KiCad and start considering placement of components, given the mechanical constraints of a Raspberry Pi HAT form factor Raspberry Pi HAT announcment in 2014 Pi HATs and Bonnets available at Adafruit Things reviewed in this video: We will be using KiCad for this project, as we do…