malphaswats / hawk

Tutorial for making an ARM dev board in KiCAD

hawk

Small ARM dev board based on ATSAMD10.

This repository takes a step-by-step look at creating a simple ATSAMD10-based dev-board using KiCAD.

Contents

Designing the PCB

1. Getting Started - Creating a Schematic.
2. Adding Battery Power.
3. Footprints & Net-lists.
4. Creating a PCB.
5. Aside: Designing a Board Outline.
6. Component Layout.
7. Laying Traces.
8. Filled Zones.
9. Silkscreen.
10. PCB Manufacture.

Assembly

11. Assembly.

Programming

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hawk's Issues

Problem with v5.1.10 release build and Chapter9

Nice guide, I thank you for it.

The 4 holes we made in OpenSCAD to use as guides for step9 (Silkscreen) has some issues in the version I'm using of PCBNew.

The issue is that the Eco1.User layer is not visible (no transparancy) through the black center of the footprint (2mm Plated Test Point footprint).
Thus the Eco1.User layer can't be used proper as a guide.

No mention of ERC ?

Nice job, but you don't mention (and don't use) the ERC (Electrical Rules Checking) in schematics. Which it pretty useful to detect obvious mistakes.

BTW, it would probably fail because you don't use any power flag.

Typo in "Creating the schematic"

"The nice thing about tutorials is you're entirely free to do it you're own way!"
Should be 'your' in the end, not 'you're'

Programming the board?

It looks like "Programming" is coming up an a future installment, but in the mean time could you comment on what sort of debugger/programmer one would need to be able to program this board? For example, would a J-Link (SWD) work?

And thanks for the very clear intro to KiCad!