Add kicad and gerber versions of shield design #39
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…lso add gerber and drill exports for fabrication.
Now features: * A linked schematic matching the Eagle one except cosmetic or Kicad specific requirements (e.g., power flags). * References have been hidden and labels placed to match the Eagle ones, which are incompatible with Kicad. * Cosmetic changes in schematic and layout to account for font, etc differences. * Version updated to "1.4TH Rev A" to make it clear it's a new variant--though should be functionally the same.
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@VIPQualityPost would you mind to take a short view on this PR? |
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The layout of directory does not make a ton of sense to me. We should try to re-sort it so that there is a single directory for all files related to the KiCad parts and a different one related to the Eagle parts (do we need to even keep these around @dl1com ? They are retained in version control, nobody is using Eagle anymore and these files are probably bitrotted anyway) Schematic: PCB: There also was a comment from @jonathanperret this week in Discord about accidentally marring the board during assembly causing short from +15V to +5V, killing Arduino. I don't think it makes much sense to have a pour for +5V , especially on an outer layer, we might want to just fix this now so that in the future it's not problems for anyone (the action requested here being that the pour on top layer is changed to GND net instead of +5V, and that the pour clearance increased from 0.4mm to something larger, maybe 0.75mm.) Overall looks great, thanks for the contributions! |
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As @VIPQualityPost indicated, please:
The other improvements pointed out by @VIPQualityPost are definitely sensible changes, but should be handled in separate PRs. HNY |
… folder structure Minor cleanup for latest KiCad version Add part numbers to symbols
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HNY everyone! And apologies for letting this PR sit for so long. My last commit cleans up the folder to leave only the KiCad version, gerber exports, and the pdf for the power connector -- similar to the esp32 structure and should be much easier to navigate. I also added part numbers for as many things as possible. I used multiple fields for when there is a choice (for 910/950 vs 930 connectors). Unfortunately I couldn't find a good way of including things in the BOM that don't have a footprint, like the buzzer or extension cable. So that needs to remain in the documentation. 
I'm leaving the silkscreen fixes and the GND pour change for another PR, so that we can merge this sooner. |
For these parts, we could use the "exclude from board" flag which was introduced in KiCAD 7.x: I don't know if you want to add this to the PR as well...if not, we'll spare this for another Issue/PR.
Please open two issues for this so we don't loose track of these. Thanks again for your contribution! |
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Considering the actual BOM is unchanged, and we don't have any place formally assembling, I think the BOM is fine to keep as-is. I can fix it when we fix the right-hand EOL stuff in a bit. |
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Thanks for merging! Re: exclude from board, I found that post as well and tried to do it, but I still ended up with a footprint (and net). I even started to modify footprints to remove inputs/outputs and decided I was clearly doing something wrong. Maybe I was using the wrong flag? I think there were some similar ones imported from eagle (like “dnp”). In any case, happy to do a follow up for that once I learn how to do it properly. Will file some issues to track. |
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