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

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.

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Why HN readers recommended it

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

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Phil’s Lab
Topic
pcb design
Format
tutorial
Level
intro
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2021–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • If folks are interested in best practices to follow when laying out a PCB, I really enjoy this series of videos on YouTube where someone whips one up live over the course of 3 hours. [VIDEO]

    stevenpetryk on Hacker News · 2021-02
    In How to design a motherboard for your electronics project

  • I've been getting into this over most of quarantine and have successfully imitated this guy's tutorials (just had to swap out the microcontroller): [VIDEO] If you don't know EE basics you'll probably want to grok those first, there's plenty of youtube channels covering it. Good …

    malwrar on Hacker News · 2021-10
    In Teach Me PCB

  • I recently learned KiCad and did some basic boards with it. It was a breeze; didn't run into any crashes, bugs, or major difficulties. I learned Eagle a few years ago, and from my vague memory I remember Eagle being a bit less obvious to …

    fpgaminer on Hacker News · 2021-12
    In KiCad 6.0.0

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