Learn to Design Your Own Boards

Learn to design your own PCB in just 15 hours using Altium Designer. Perfect for electronics enthusiasts!

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Brief Summary

This course is perfect for anyone wanting to dive into the world of electronics! You'll learn to design a PCB with Altium, starting from basic schematics all the way to generating the necessary documents for manufacturing your board. Super fun and engaging!

Key Points

  • Step-by-step guidance on PCB design with Altium
  • Learn to create and modify schematics
  • Manufacturing documents included for real-world application

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the fundamentals of PCB design
  • Become proficient in using Altium Designer
  • Create professional documents for PCB manufacturing

About This Course

Design a board in 15 hours. Step-by-Step tutorial based on Arduino project (Altium)

Learning a basic board design is essential for everyone who would like to work in electronics or who would like to design electronic boards or products. Learning board design in the right software can open you door into many companies, help you to get a well paid job and can be used to design very complex and advanced boards.

Design a Real Board and Learn Essentials of Using Altium Designer

- Draw your own schematic
- Route your PCB and do layout
- Generate documentation needed to manufacture your PCB

Altium Designer is a Powerful Software

During this course you will learn how to use Altium Designer software. Altium Designer is a professional software used to design all kind of boards, from very simple ones to motherboards or servers. It is one of the most used software for electronic design. Learning Altium is useful for everyone planning or already working in electronics.

Contents and Overview

You will start with Arduino Uno reference schematic. You will learn how to re-draw the schematic, modify it, you will learn how to improve it and how to do PCB layout. The course videos are step-by-step and even if you are new in electronics or you have never used Altium Designer before, by repeating these steps, you will design your own board. By the end of this course, you will create all the necessary documents needed to manufacture the board.

Within 15 hours you will learn how to:

- Draw schematic, including tips for component selection and important circuits
- Create components, draw schematic symbols and footprints
- Place components into your PCB
- Route PCB and useful tips about layout
- Create 3D model of your board
- Create board variants with different components fitted / not fitted
- Create Bill of Material (BOM)
- Create assembly drawings showing position of components on the board
- Generate Gerbers, Pick and Place, Drill file and other files needed for manufacturing
- Prepare professional documents needed to manufacture your PCB and assemble your board
- Bring your board to life, flash firmware and run a simple LED Blinky example

For everyone interested, the manufacturing documents created during this course can be used to build your board. Simply use PCB manufacturing data to get your PCB, buy components from Digikey and solder them by yourself.

Enjoy this course :)

  • After this course, you will design your own Arduino like board.

Course Curriculum

79 Lectures

Instructor

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Robert Feranec

Robert has designed motherboards based on Intel, AMD, VIA processors. His Youtube hardware design videos have over 7 million views. Robert also teaches Schematic Design and PCB Layout at FEDEVEL Academy.Other Robert's courses- Advanced PCB Layout (includes high speed layout)- Advanced Hardware Design (Schematic & PCB Design Course)- Learn Altium Essentials (Switching Power Supply Design Course)- Learn the Essentials of...

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4.9 course rating
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ui-avatar of Tom Causer
Tom C.
5.0
8 months ago

I am very, very happy with this course. Great teacher. In terms of his ability to think up scenarios where you might be confused and answer questions you didn't know you had yet -- one of the best.

There are 1-2 issues along the way wherein his version of Altium is older and hence the way you access certain panels is now different, but this is solved very quickly by just searching on any search engine "where is this located now".

Only on lecture 16 and yet I've already learned so much. It feels criminal that so much useful knowledge is so well collected and presented, and yet the course is so cheap.

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Ivan M.
5.0
8 months ago

El curso es muy bueno, sobre todo para las personas que les gusta esta área de la electrónica. Robert explica muy bien y es fácil seguirle durante todo el proceso. Me ha permitido mejorar mis conocimientos en Altium. Dedica tiempo suficiente y mucha paciencia. El resultado final será el desarrollo de una habilidad increíble.

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ui-avatar of Abdelkader Saker
Abdelkader S.
4.5
9 months ago

This course is good for Beginners.

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Ashpak I. B.
5.0
9 months ago

it's too good quality

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ui-avatar of Dharmendra Sharma
Dharmendra S.
5.0
10 months ago

Excellent course with wonderful explanations. it's very helpful for new learners.

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Metin
5.0
11 months ago

This course is good for beginners. But it would be better to have much more details about PCBs and Altium designer trics.

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ui-avatar of Midhun
Midhun
5.0
11 months ago

I want to improve my skill in altium. I think this course will help me

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Leonardo F.
5.0
11 months ago

It is a very professional course to start. He teaches u in the right way.
A good introduction!

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ui-avatar of Muhammed Yasin Nart
Muhammed Y. N.
5.0
1 year ago

It was wonderful.I improved my Electronic Hardware Design skills.Thank you so much.

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ui-avatar of Zoran Vuksan
Zoran V.
4.5
1 year ago

yes

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