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KiCad for Makers

This hands-on video course takes you step by step through the complete process of designing, building, and testing a custom electronic board in KiCad. Building on the fundamentals covered in KiCad for Beginners, this advanced course guides you through the design of a real-world carrier board featuring an M.2 connector, a microcontroller, dual USB interfaces, dual power supplies, 24V input, and multiple inputs and outputs.

Throughout the course you will:

• Explore Blues modules and learn how to integrate them into your own designs.
• Prepare and manage schematic symbols, footprints, and hierarchical blocks.
• Design power supplies, interfaces, microcontroller connections, inputs, and outputs — while referencing datasheets and performing real calculations.
• Organize and verify your schematic with ERC checks.
• Transition from schematic to PCB layout, including board setup, net classes, impedance considerations, component placement, and routing.
• Generate manufacturing files, a bill of materials (BOM), and an interactive BOM (iBOM).
• Assemble, solder, and bring up your finished board, testing power rails, data communication, and I/O functionality.

With clear demonstrations, practical examples, and real design decisions explained in context, this course gives you the confidence to take your KiCad skills from schematic to fully working hardware.

Bonus sections cover assembly, board bring-up, and data transfer experiments, ensuring you gain a complete end-to-end experience.

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