Tutorial #1: How to Design and Build Your Own Board - Simply and Easily

A Step by Step tutorial to help everyone to learn how to design and build a simple microcontroller board - even if you have never designed any boards before and you do not know much about electronics. This Part 1 is about how to draw a schematic for power and LED.

I hope you will find it useful. Thank you very much for for watching. - Robert

Here is the finished project where you can see how this board is used:

Download the finished Schematic and PCB here:

Download the project source code from here:

Watch the full tutorial here:

Individual videos:

Chapters:
00:00 About this tutorial
3:20 Starting a new project
5:36 Choosing & Placing RGB LED
11:47 Choosing & Placing Accelerometer
16:25 Choosing & Placing Button
18:02 Choosing & Placing Microcontroller
23:13 Choosing & Placing Power supply
25:22 Choosing & Placing 10uF capacitor
27:08 Connecting Power supply
29:37 Choosing & Placing Battery connector
31:51 Adding micro USB circuit
42:25 Choosing & Placing Diode
51:20 Choosing & Placing Power LED
57:26 How to calculate LED resistor
1:04:10 Choosing & Placing MOSFET Transistor

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It is much appreciated. Thank you,
- Robert

[owfan]

You basically summarized in 3.5 hours (all videos combined) everything that I've been learning for the past 3 months in my final year of electrical engineering undergrad. I'm building an IoT Hydroponics tower that you can automatically control and observe from your phone. Your content has made me realize how cool I think PCB design is, and I think it might be where I go to start a career. Also, you respond to pretty much every comment, which is extremely rare for content creators to do. Thanks Robert, I appreciate you a lot!

[travism]

This is the best series by an absolute mile that you will find on creating your own PCBs thank you Robert

[myetis]

the diodes that prevent both power sources to fight together do reverse polarity protection as well.
each time, I learn new things about hw design even on a tiny board such as this, thank you, Robert.

[kimedwardoclida]

I'm starting again to practice my PCB Design. thank you for this tutorial

[yngvenystrand]

Thanks Robert, you really are a superb teacher! I usually use the MCP1702 or MCP1703 LDO regulators, they have a quiescent current of only 2 uA. Looking forward to part #2!

[ayushkothari]

Best thing about this tutorial was you were explaining the reason why u r choosing those components and their important datasheet electrical ratings. I suggest u to keep doing this good work👍👍

[kentvandervelden]

Thank you for all the time you have put into these tutorials. Excellent information!

[domenicospagnuolo]

The kind of video I was waiting for.
You have perfectly reacted to my comment under the video with Samson March. You have done even better!!!
I really appreciate your work and your altruism. Thank you Robert...

[ziqpnlx]

This tutorial is helpfeul! It is detailed. Great! That's exactly what i found. Thank you so much Robert! 😘 Great job! ! !

[sherkislove]

Two different people recommended your channel for PCB design questions, good job man!

[michalszymi]

Suddenly some of the selected components by Robert are out of stock :) JLCPCB has to monitor this channel. Thank you Robert and as always very nice tutorial.

[ElemmentCG]

Such an amazing tutorial, I did not feel at all that it was long, you took it step by step and literally taught me new things.
Please keep it up ^_^

[AndrewKiethBoggs]

Thank you so much for your expertise. After I finish your YouTube playlist I am definitely taking your PCB design courses.

[vtzsxcg]

just finish this, can't wait for part 2 !

[leolaxes]

Great content!!! Thanks for taking the time to teach this. Not to long ago, this level of flexibility for prototyping was non existent. I graduated from engineering in 2011 it was almost impossible to get professional PCBs and design them so easily. We had to deal with Altium and sketchy local PCB providers...

[rahulsb]

This is amazing! Gave a clear picture of the steps that I need to do for creating my board! Thank you very much! :)

[gincoba]

Hi Robert! Thanks for this video! Please go on! This could be the natural evolution of your beautiful project 28 pins! Waiting for the following videos! Thanks a lot! Cheers!

[pelasgan]

very good way of explaining, thx Robert

[AlejandroGarcia-rklc]

You're simply the best! I love that sort of videos where one can find projects become real from the scratch

[uzairbukhari]

Yes! Finally we're on open source apps. This is gonna be great!