Hacker's Guide to Making Circuit Boards (Part 1)
Hey! The purpose of this series is to teach you how to design, manufacture, and program a circuit board. Afterwards, you'll be well positioned to work on a simple circuit board that drives something like bluetooth headphones, a quadcopter, or an electric skateboard.
The focus throughout the series is on teaching a small set of skills that can get you surprisingly far: the equivalent of pip install and for-loops for electrical engineering.
I'm still quite new to this, but making a circuit board is way easier than I thought before I started. I've written this tutorial with the goal of making it widely accessible. Notably,
Concretely, we'll be designing a circuit board that controls a robot. It'll read data from a gyroscope and drive four servo motors. We'll control it with a few buttons, power it with four AA batteries, and program it in Rust.
Our first order of business will be creating a schematic of our circuit board. A schematic is an abstract diagram that indicates which components we want to use, and how they should be electrically connected to one another.
