How to Make Circuits in the Fab Lab

top level page for circuits

Making a circuit requires several mini-projects:

Decide what function your circuit board should have

• download a cad file from the hello-world circuits section on the http://fab.cba.mit.edu/about/fab/ or from hello world electronics
• Or design custom circuit

create the schematic and board layout in a CAD program

Use e.g. Eagle or Cad.py, ,or Gimp or draw it and scan

Fabricate the board

Physically milling or cutting out the board which connects components

• Making circuit boards on Modela
• Making circuit boards on Camm

Make a programming cable

• Make a programming cable

Solder the board

If you want to where the components should be you could look at the file design, in .cad file or you can check out * Circuit descriptons. pdf

• Scotts new Hello World Circuits description

Solder the board.

Programming the microcontroller

• Use AVRDUDE