Today's In-Class Work

Progress:

Today in class, Aaron and I finished the 12 by 12, 18 by 18 and 24 by 24 PADS and placed them on the canvas which has been modified to the size of the copper clad. Here’s a photo of our layout. 

 

Our next step is to delete the unnecessary wire connections in order to create the patterns. Also, as you can see, there are a lot of wasted space, so I am trying to optimize the surface by placing more pads and move them around. I believe that we will be able to print this layout and begin our etching process on Thursday !

Progress Report

Since the Steminar presentation, I have realized that using Photoshop may not be the best way to complete the PCB designing. Photoshop is definitely time-consuming since the copy-and-paste function doesn’t work as easily as we thought it should be. Even when we switched to another software, Fireworks, the layers would get weird and messed up. So, now I have been using QCAD to complete the PCB designing. I find the schematics on QCAD really helpful and useful. It definitely made my job a lot easier as well.