KiCad RP2040 Module Carrier Board Design - Phil's Lab #29

Designing a carrier board to fit my custom RP2040 PCB module (castellated holes) in KiCad. How to create custom symbols, footprints, import 3D STEP files, and some more about schematics and PCB design!
Board manufactured and assembled by JLCPCB.com.

[TIMESTAMPS]
00:00 RP2040 Module PCBs
00:51 Carrier Board Overview
01:10 Altium (Previous Video + Free Trial)
01:31 JLCPCB
01:53 Schematic
05:25 Symbol Creation
06:15 Getting Footprint Information from Altium
07:02 Footprint Creation
08:10 PCB Layout and Routing

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[hussssshie]

No matter the time of the day, I'm always gonna tap that notification when Phil uploads

[PhilipStubbs]

I am not a fan of notifications, but this just deserves a click of that bell! Thank you.

[muzairafzal]

Excellent, excellent work from you knowledgeable content, and exceptionally well detailed covering of the topics.
I wish you work on ESP32 as well, as the chip is quite powerful, and gives pretty good power overhead to work with at very reasonable price, apart from its usual WIFI related applications.

[dymastro]

Nice tip to create a new part with a 3d model, useful when using breakout boards.

[rjpeterson]

Great job! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[backdemoletor]

i made my development board based around a pic microcontroller.. but now seeing your dev board.. i want to make my own using the RP2040, it's soooo cool
nice video btw keep it up

[andymouse]

Great video, I look forward to the next....cheers.

[MikeNugget]

Phil, you are the best! Keep making videos)

[sanjikaneki]

i can find any programing vid, is it still going to happen ?

[vishalmehra]

I prefer Kicad over altium for tutorials.

[osamadz]

Great video, i wish if you make more 1h videos about 6-8 layer PCB and analog or digital High-speed /and any news about paid courses

[nerosy]

Can we please have an Altium design video just like this one (STM32 + USB + Buck Converter PCB Design and JLCPCB Assembly)?
I'm really interested in how we can use Altium to make a full board design and manufacture it from scratch with JLCPCB for example.

[narwodev]

Always excited to see a new video from you!
Any chance of the BOM for the RP2040 board? I'm mostly interested in the LCSC part numbers for the

[ricardoquesada]

Thanks Phil! I couldn't find the repo in your github... could you the link? Many thanks!

[Mr.Leeroy]

I know it is tight in there, but ESD protection package should be there on MCU board as close as possible. Unless you are planning to not handle it outside of enclosure.
How are these boards in use? if there was any in a year past.

[schmelpe]

How about a ULP PCB with power supply via solar/LiSOCl2 based on a RP2040 or STM32L.... and a LoRaWAN chip?

[KaradevNetLtd]

all videos about hardware design with rp2040 are very cool, in end of this you say will make a video how to program the brand new board with rp2040. i made my own design with same micro but it is not run, even is not windows system sound when plug in to usb. have a need to upload some how a some bootloader or software to get started to work with my custom board ??? will be super cool if you can make a some well explained video lesson to how about first run custom board with rp2040. also my hardware design is so bad then yours and i want to you check a little if you have time. can provide my email, git or web site to contact you for a little help. best regards for you excellent work. i hope will find a time for little help

[mauwedooluwaseun]

Sir Is it compulsory to connect Interrupt pin of mpu 6050 to mcu(microcontroller)

[jgpeiro]

What is the purpose of the small holes in te top-left and bottom-right corners? (in the board designed in the previous video)

[brantwinter]

USB-Micro??? There's no excuse for not using USB-C any longer.