There are a few basic steps to making a PCB. First is designing the board in Eagle or KiCad. The next step, putting the design into copper, has a lot of techniques to choose from.

We seem to want our PCB design software to do everything these days, and it almost delivers. You can not only lay it all out, check electrical and design rules, and even spit out a bill of material… ...

PCBWay's KiCad plugin simplifies the process by automating many of the design tasks, such as generating a bill of materials (BOM), creating a pick-and-place file, and exporting the Gerber files for ...

KiCAD (pronounced ‘keycad’) is a capable open-source pcb layout tool, which recently reached version 6. I have been trying to use the software, and feel stuck an ‘just muddling thorough’. In search of ...

Always glad to feature a Raspberry Pi book on Gadget Master, so here's Design an RP2040 board with KiCad (open source PCB design software).