Home Automation Workshop

[evildeece (Alastair D'Silva)]

I’ve put together a basic outline of a PCB design & SMD soldering workshop series here:

PCB Design Workshop

I have a reflow oven, so I could run a PCB design workshop as proposed in the Home Automation thread. 0805s should be doable by the layperson, since the oven & surface tension does all the hard work. I think a design workshop series would go something like this: Lesson 1: Intro to KiCAD & discussion of a common goal to achieve Lesson 2: Discussion of digital electronics, power conditioning, the STM32 microcontroller and starting to lay out the schematic Lesson 3: Continuing to build the s…