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(Sponsored) KiCad STM32 + USB + Buck Converter PCB Design and JLCPCB Assembly - Phil's Lab #11

Phil’s Lab · tutorial · Watch on YouTube

Electronics & circuit designEmbedded systems & DIY electronics

What it is

A roughly three-hour screen recording of designing a barebones STM32F4 board in KiCad, covering schematic, four-layer layout and routing, USB and a buck converter. It ends with ordering manufacture and assembly through JLCPCB.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN people recommend it as a real, end-to-end PCB design walkthrough that beginners successfully imitated to learn KiCad.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “I really enjoy this series of videos on YouTube where someone whips one up live over the course of 3 hours.”

    Live PCB layout walkthrough showing best practices.

    stevenpetryk, 2021-02 · Recommendation · in “How to design a motherboard for your electronics project”

  2. “successfully imitated this guy's tutorials”

    Tutorials the commenter successfully followed to learn PCB design.

    malwrar, 2021-10 · Recommendation · in “Teach Me PCB”

  3. “For anyone looking to learn KiCad, I used this video tutorial”

    Video tutorial used to learn KiCad.

    fpgaminer, 2021-12 · Recommendation · in “KiCad 6.0.0”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: kicad, stm32, pcb layout, usb, buck converter, jlcpcb

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