Tutorial #5: Improving Your PCB Layout and Manufacturing Your Board

A Step by Step tutorial to help everyone to learn how to design and build a simple microcontroller board. This Part 5 is about improving PCB Layout, generating files needed for PCB manufacturing and board assembly and ordering your board. Here is the finished project where you can see how this board is used: - Making a Magic Wand with Light Effects and Spell Recognition | Wizards Wand Download the finished Schematic and PCB here: Download the project source code from here: Watch the full tutorial here: Individual videos: - Tutorial #1: How to Design and Build Your Own Board - Simply and Easily - Tutorial #2: Drawing Schematic and Connecting Microcontroller Accelerometer ( EasyEDA ) - Tutorial #3: Starting a new PCB, Placing Components, Improving Schematic - Tutorial #4: How To Do PCB Layout (Step by Step) - Tutorial #5: Improving Your PCB Layout and Manufacturing Your Board - Tutorial #6: Useful Steps To Do After You Receive Your Boards From Production Some soldering tips - Tutorial #7: How to Write Software And Program Your Board - Step by Step Chapters: 00:00 - Improving signals on the bottom layer 12:46 - Making tracks wider 16:47 - Improving top layer 24:42 - Improving Powers, Drawing copper areas 38:40 - Improving Power planes 49:49 - Moving & Adjusting planes, GND under Signals 57:26 - About Impedance 1:02:40 - Adding text and notes on PCB 1:16:00 - Creating PCB Panel 1:21:14 - Generating and Uploading Gerber Files 1:26:05 - Generating, Adjusting and Uploading BOM and Pick & Place Files 1:38:13 - Ordering our board 1:42:54 - Ordering the missing components ------------------------------------------------------ Would you like to support me? It’s simple: - Sign up for my Hardware design and PCB Layout online courses: - You can also support me through Patreon: - Or sign up for my Udemy course: It is much appreciated. Thank you, - Robert