An Absolute Beginners Guide To Designing PCBs using Easy EDA - Make PCB From A Schematic

Learn how to make your own PCBs from a schematic. This video is for absolute beginners who want to make their very first PCB. I use a simple easy to understand schematic for a signal injector and take you through the whole process from drawing the schematic, laying out the components, creating the PCB design, exporting the gerber file and ordering your first PCB from PCBWay. This video will not try to teach you all the features of the PCB design software but it will get you started making your first steps if you never did this before. I really enjoyed making this video and the PCB, this is something I will definitely explore further.
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  • @paulc9139
    @paulc9139 Жыл бұрын

    50 Years in Electronics repair, never designed a PCB in my life, but my god I'm going to have a go after this video, thanks Richard

  • @EETechStuff
    @EETechStuff Жыл бұрын

    Excellent Richard! A lot of people are very intimidated by the thought of what seems to be a difficult process, but it has become so simplified in the last 10-20 years that I think most would be absolutely amazed at how inexpensive and easy it is. Especially compared to what we used to do back in the day, using tubs of acid and and drawing the traces manually. Although some retro hobbyists still like going down that old rabbit hole for some reason. BTW, the techniques you showed are excellent, and very similar to what's done in other PCB design software.

  • @Foobar_The_Fat_Penguin
    @Foobar_The_Fat_Penguin Жыл бұрын

    A perhaps interesting alternative to EasyEDA for beginners could be Fritzing. It's OpenSource and available for Win, Mac, and Linux. Unlike other software, it doesn't start with the schematic, but with the breadboard layout. So if you're more practically oriented and already have a functioning prototype on a breadboard, you can just recreate it virtually in the software, then have it automatically create schematics and PCBs from that. KiCAD would be another OpenSource program that appears to be in widespread use and which I have used to make my first tiny PCBs not so long ago. It also did the job, although it looked to be a bit more complicated than EasyEDA or Fritzing. But even a complete moron like me could use it, so it's probably perfectly fine for normal people.

  • @raagamparmar5602

    @raagamparmar5602

    Жыл бұрын

    Yup. I began my PCB journey with Fritzing, and it is really easy to work with.

  • @OIE82

    @OIE82

    Жыл бұрын

    I have never heard of that software. I will look into it. Thanks.

  • @IlBiggo
    @IlBiggo Жыл бұрын

    Funny that you're using JLPCB's software to prepare a PCB for PCBWay :) As you've surely noticed, you can order PCBs from JLPCB through EasyEDA. But of course, having the option to choose a manufacturer is a nice thing. I'm actually surprised that EasyEDA doesn't lock you into ordering from JLPCB. Kudos to the guys for not being greedy! One interesting thing to do is make the autorouter draw the PCB and then edit it. For some reasons, I don't like VIAs. Most of the times I can rotate or move components around to have shorter traces, or less jumping from a side of the PCB to the other. EasyEDA will notify you of bad rerouting or overlapping tracks, so it's easy to design a cleaner PCB. Or, in my case, probably mess it up but still have a functioning result :D

  • @willthomsen7569
    @willthomsen75697 ай бұрын

    I’d love if you did more of these videos and design circuits more and more complicated to do bigger and bigger jobs from scratch where every piece fits and why

  • @geoffedwards189
    @geoffedwards189 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Richard! I am new at PCB creation. I have tried a couple of different design tools but haven't settled on anything yet. I will give Easy EDA a try. Best wishes.

  • @nigelfewster
    @nigelfewster Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Richard your channel for me is one of the most interesting and educational I have come across on you tube. Have a good Christmas in the sun and I will be waiting in the wet and cold U.K. for the follow video on those pcbs.

  • @Simon-mz7sf
    @Simon-mz7sf Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Richard. When time poor getting an excellent intro and how to like this goes a long way. Merry Xmas

  • @eross21
    @eross212 ай бұрын

    this was very helpful. i was getting hung up on the open nets. but now i see how you fixed that. thank you.

  • @SS-mj2mq
    @SS-mj2mq Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this video it means a lot. I think you did a great job 👏👏👏happy holidays to you and a merry Christmas 👍⛄🌲🤗😁💯

  • @brunorodriguesmaso
    @brunorodriguesmaso Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Richard!

  • @drumbyte
    @drumbyte Жыл бұрын

    Great presentation!

  • @chrissmith7655
    @chrissmith7655 Жыл бұрын

    Hi, many thanks enjoyed the info.

  • @daz41262010
    @daz41262010 Жыл бұрын

    brilliant video Richard :)

  • @Dutch_off_grid_homesteading
    @Dutch_off_grid_homesteading Жыл бұрын

    Heya, thats a very easy way to make your pcb's nice

  • @frankbaron1608
    @frankbaron1608 Жыл бұрын

    to even up the spaceing, with the components selected, go to format, selectect distrbute horizontally

  • @seansanders789
    @seansanders789 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your video they are very helpful. I have a question I hope u can answer I'm very interested in learning electronic repair but don't know anything . Can u recommend some good books to read to get me started.Your videos are a huge help.But I do better when I can combined it with reading it helps me retain the info. I hope u see this message and can help me out have a great day.

  • @LearnElectronicsRepair

    @LearnElectronicsRepair

    Жыл бұрын

    Have a look on the LER discord server 😉

  • @garrypowell1086
    @garrypowell1086 Жыл бұрын

    Sorry Richard but the switch as designed shorts the battery from Vcc to ground. Otherwise I love the simplicity of EasyEDA. Love your work. All the best from Australia.

  • @LearnElectronicsRepair

    @LearnElectronicsRepair

    Жыл бұрын

    Really? Look at the schematic again 14:55 The positive end of the battery connects to Vcc permanently and the negative end connects to ground via the switch when pressed. To the best of my understanding the switch completes the circuit and powers the device. Where is the short?

  • @andymouse
    @andymouse Жыл бұрын

    I started with EASYEDA but it was cloud based and painfully slow but it taught me enough to move to a professional tool called KICAD are you gonna hand solder the 0603 smd parts yourself ? I personally like to solder he 0805. Merry Christmas!.......cheers.

  • @LearnElectronicsRepair

    @LearnElectronicsRepair

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah I can solder 0603 by hand- as I did on the prototype I made from veroboard. I can solder 0402 pretty good as well. Of course you could just make the schematic using 0805 resistors and capacitors instead

  • @andymouse

    @andymouse

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LearnElectronicsRepair wow I can't solder 0402 ! good on you !

  • @Enigma758
    @Enigma758 Жыл бұрын

    I want to continue to make single layer boards at home, but up my game by using PCB layout software (instead of making my own layout drawings using graphic tools). Does anyone have any recommedations for easy to use SINGLE LAYER design software?

  • @romancharak3675

    @romancharak3675

    Жыл бұрын

    @Enigma758 I make PCBs at home, both single a double sided. And, they look very professional, in my opinion. I use DipTrace (free version) to create my schematic drawings and PCB layout. Some hobbyist use KiCad software, which also has a free version.

  • @Enigma758

    @Enigma758

    Жыл бұрын

    @@romancharak3675 I've been meaning to give DipTrace a try, now I will, thanks. The key for me is "easy" single sided design.

  • @LearnElectronicsRepair

    @LearnElectronicsRepair

    Жыл бұрын

    Use Easy EDA - it can also do single sides and multilayer. You select the number of layers when you set the size and shape of the PCB

  • @Enigma758

    @Enigma758

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LearnElectronicsRepair Unfortunately, if you attempt to select "1" layer, EasyEDA tells you that it's not supported. :(.

  • @benjaminbeier4036
    @benjaminbeier4036 Жыл бұрын

    The switch could have been rotated. Also I wonder if it was possible to layout this without any vias. Maybe you can upload the file for us to play with it. 😄 Really loved this video. It reminded me at my teenage years when I was exploring electronics and building mikrocontroller boards for robots. Nowadays (15 years later) I am a Sysadmin and rarely have time to play with PCB stuff.

  • @LearnElectronicsRepair

    @LearnElectronicsRepair

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah I did think I should have rotated the switch but anyway I am just learning how to do this too

  • @anthonydenn4345
    @anthonydenn4345 Жыл бұрын

    Great video Richard, I really like the way you can position every part exactly where you want it on the board and the software does the rest, amazing. You don't have to meticulously layout everything right, like I expected it to be like. Might have to give this a go myself sometime 😀

  • @abcdefg91111
    @abcdefg91111 Жыл бұрын

    15:33

  • @Blinkerd00d
    @Blinkerd00d Жыл бұрын

    So... I have a few circuits for guitar pedals that are fairly large. The schematic is laid out, I just haven't had the time to go and finish the actual pcb layout. If you want to do another video that dives deeper into pcb layouts- I can send you one of them.

  • @Blinkerd00d

    @Blinkerd00d

    Жыл бұрын

    I do all of mine in EAGLE btw

  • @shagreobe
    @shagreobe Жыл бұрын

    I downloaded KICAD, and tried it out...think EasyEDA is simpler, have to dl it

  • @romancharak3675
    @romancharak3675 Жыл бұрын

    Hello Richard. Don't you need a pad for soldering the ground wire from you speakers?

  • @LearnElectronicsRepair

    @LearnElectronicsRepair

    Жыл бұрын

    What speakers?

  • @nadeem6392
    @nadeem6392 Жыл бұрын

    xشكرا يا حج

  • @SerenoOunce
    @SerenoOunce Жыл бұрын

    Worth noting do not place pads so close to the board edge. A design like this is likely to be rejected by these PCB makers.

  • @LearnElectronicsRepair

    @LearnElectronicsRepair

    Жыл бұрын

    I am sure your advice is good and correct, though in this case the design was accepted for production

  • @AlvaSvensson-hd7nr
    @AlvaSvensson-hd7nr27 күн бұрын

    Why are you blurring out your screen all the time? Are you trying to hide all those corn videos you have on your pc?

  • @hamper3049
    @hamper3049 Жыл бұрын

    Please, show the result.

  • @LearnElectronicsRepair

    @LearnElectronicsRepair

    Жыл бұрын

    I already did about two weeks ago kzread.info/dash/bejne/a4ybrtGnfNm-Yrg.html

  • @hamper3049

    @hamper3049

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LearnElectronicsRepair Thank you very much. I haven't seen this video yet.

  • @markusvirtanen9163
    @markusvirtanen9163 Жыл бұрын

    Using an autorouter?!?! Why? Route our own boards to ensure that design specks are met, please!

  • @ivanlam1304

    @ivanlam1304

    Жыл бұрын

    Perhaps the routing is not critical for this project

  • @LearnElectronicsRepair

    @LearnElectronicsRepair

    Жыл бұрын

    Why? Because this is, as I clearly stated at the start, a beginners guide for anyone who has never made a PCB before. I wanted to show how easy this is hopefully to encourage viewers who thought it was too complicated to give it a go instead and be really surprised to find they can actually do this. Sure there are more advanced and no doubt better ways to design PCBs and far more to learn about this topic before anyone can be considered an expert, but as a total beginners guide I honestly believe I succeeded created just that by showing how to do it the easiest way

  • @markusvirtanen9163

    @markusvirtanen9163

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LearnElectronicsRepair OK, maybe you could do manual routing tutorial as a next video? As a professional PCB / Electronics Engineer I know how badly autorouter routes tracks and may cause abnormal functionality to the circuit board. And I always try to tell people that you learn electronics by doing it yourself and autorouter defeats that. You just don't learn how to layout your PCBs if you allow a machine to do that for you.

  • @ivanlam1304

    @ivanlam1304

    Жыл бұрын

    You could let the auto router do the work and then correct the results where necessary

  • @markusvirtanen9163

    @markusvirtanen9163

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ivanlam1304 Yes, that is also a good idea.

  • @middleway1885
    @middleway1885 Жыл бұрын

    Boop

  • @Admin-md9pl
    @Admin-md9pl4 ай бұрын

    cant hear for the friggen background music. crap

  • @Admin-md9pl
    @Admin-md9pl4 ай бұрын

    OOOps wrong video, sorry

  • @spinynorman887
    @spinynorman887 Жыл бұрын

    You earned a dislike in the first 30 seconds. Want to guess why?

  • @EETechStuff

    @EETechStuff

    Жыл бұрын

    I'll take a guess...because the internet is the only place on planet Earth where, for some strange reason, people actually think they're entitled to get free stuff. And any creator who dares to attempt to get a tiny (and I mean tiny) income in return for sharing all their years of expertise, as well as expending the huge effort required to make this free content, risks getting those people upset. How'd I do?

  • @Enigma758

    @Enigma758

    Жыл бұрын

    @@EETechStuff Exactly!

  • @LearnElectronicsRepair

    @LearnElectronicsRepair

    Жыл бұрын

    You were just having a hedgehog moment? I just checked the stats, although YT no longer show dislikes, I can still see them in analytics. This video currently has 266 likes and 6 dislikes. So that's 97.1% of viewers who clicked the buttons liked the video. The video has 3246 views at the same time so only 8.2% of viewers expressed an opinion, the other 91.8% of them obviously didn't care one way or the other 😋 I can never please everyone all of the time (well actually it seems sometimes I can as amazingly, to me at least, some videos have 100% likes) but as far as I am concerned 97.1% is good enough. Really though, why not reply and explain why I did earn a dislike in 30 seconds? Surely the path to improvement requires understanding of the problem in the first place. So let's talk about it, yeah?

  • @EETechStuff

    @EETechStuff

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LearnElectronicsRepair Richard, he got upset when you said the video is sponsored. Apparently he thinks you shouldn't get even a tiny income for all of your expertise and hard work. Of course he would never tell his employer not to pay him for his time, but apparently other people should work for free.

  • @LearnElectronicsRepair

    @LearnElectronicsRepair

    Жыл бұрын

    @@EETechStuff Probably true. Actually PCBWay are a big help in sponsoring the channel, both in financial support and providing free PCBs. I quite simply couldn't make the cheap test equipment projects and videos like this one without their sponsorship. I accept not everyone agrees with sponsor deals, I only make two PCBWay videos a month out of the twenty or so that I publish and I also get complete freedom to choose what I want to do in those sponsored videos, so I'm happy to stick with them, I have received offers from just about every single one of their competitors.