Thank you for this great 3 episode series. Really got me started in no time. I'd love to have your picture in picture frame down on the lower right corner of the screen as it was blocking many of the tools you clicked. Excellent work!
I've just come across your videos Colin, these are the best I've seen showing how to use EDA, even there offical videos don't explain it so clearly, thanks for making these.
Please can someone help me out I just maked a schematics on easyeda but when I try to convert it to a pcb it dose nothing I have saved the schematic but it still won’t convert it to a pcb if someone no’s why or can you help please can you or can I email you with a pic to show what it’s doing
Fantastic, Best beginners series I have come across. I was seriously thinking I would have yo pay someone to design an EXCEEDINGLY simple board. But you have given me the confidence to try it again. Very much appreciated
Great tutorial. One very informative thing I learnt from other tutorials, elsewhere, was that before you lay out your PCB, always review and set the design rules of the manufacturer. That way, the track widths and clearings will be considered by the PCB layout software as you do the manual routing. The software, knowing the rules, will not allow you to violate them, for example by placing your traces too close to each other. That would save you headache when you try to order your board. You did not touch on this fact with any emphasis. I wonder how you feel about it. Thank you again for the great tutorial series.
Great advice on the design rules, it does make life easier when it comes to getting the boards built. I think also looking at track widths depending on how much current you want to carry would be good also.
Its also worth knowing that you can combine postage on several boards. Also, you can get reduced shipping on components from LCSC when the board is in production so its worth getting everything ready in advance since the chances are that your board will only be in production for 24hrs or less - blink and it will be on its way!
Thanks John, great advice, i've used LCSC a couple of times and i must say it's nice knowing that a component will be the right size/genuine etc rather than the ali express lottery which you can sometimes have.
Thanks for the 3 videos. Really clear, easy to understand and to learn from. One small comment: your video when minimized is located on top right, hiding some of the menu and options. In the future, you may want to consider placing it on bottom right.
Watched all of the series. OUTSTANDING....very concise tutorial very organized, good flow. Would like to see the BOM process and ordering parts. Also want to see how to create schematic symbols, and PCB footprints for same part, preferably a SMD part. Then maybe a simulation using the simulation part of the schematic tool.
Yes very good series. I was wondering if you'd consider doing a follow up to this one which shows how to make changes to a board? I'm finding that component changes are not easily done. So perhaps something which goes through an easy change, where if the part is the same size you can just make the swap out, to a slightly more complicated one and what you need to do on the schematic as well as the pcb to get it to work. I find that there's no one who's done this type of video.
like the STAMP HOLE. Can you make a part 4 of this series telling us how to make a circuit with a flexible parts? I want to know how to make it in EasyEDA, Thanks
Hi Colin, Great video's, I'm new to Schematics and PCB design and found your set of 3 videos very helpful.I am quite old but still like to learn, and in the past few years have taught myself basic Arduino Programming and 3D Design using Fusion 360. But decided I wanted to have a go at designing some PCB boards for my projects. Hence why I watched your video's. I always try to solve problems myself but sometimes get stuck and was wondering if you mined people asking you questions regard EasyEDA? Thanks again for the Video's. I have subscribed in the hope you will do more.
Thank you Colin, very helpful video. I would really like to see a video on the workflow from EasyEDA to JLCpcb's new pcb assembly service. There would possibly be others interested in this as well.
@@Chickey I would be most interested. There are a lot of videos on EastEDA and also on the new PCB assembly service. However nobody has yet showed how they can be used together as a process to produce a completed item.
A way to remove just the net you are interested in is to double click on the net name under Design Manager->Nets. A pop-up should appear asking if you want to unroute just that net. You can also use Shift+B to rebuild the ground plane. To help with those clearances when using the autorouter, you can set the clearance for each rule which can help ensure that those default 10mil clearances are overridden for certain nets.
Though I find it odd that they complained about the 1.6mm spacing for v-scores as I tend to use 0mm for my boards which used to be the default. And yes, always do custom size for your stencil. I got the default size once before I knew any better and it is absolutely huge.
Thanks for the comments. Yeah the vscore complaint confused me as well. If i remember rightly the boards which i panalised at checkout on jlcpcb automatically did 0mm spacing.
What happened to the 5v connection to the barrel connector? Can see it from wemos to capacitor but that's it. Also noticed you were a bit hesitant when you could see the cost. Your panalised board is 111cm wide so outside the 100x100mm standard. Been there, tried to do that. Thank again for a great set of videos.
Thanks for the comments, choosing a 1x2 panel may have been a better example. Re hesitation i think i had forgotten i'd panalised the board so seemed more till my brain caught up :-) I'll have to check the 5v connection, it's possible i mangled something in the video edit but to be honest it was more about showing the concepts.
Hello Colin, by the sound of your accent you do not live too far away from me. I live in a place called Cleadon, mid way between Sunderland and South Shields - whereabouts are you? I have just started using EasyEDA and have encountered a problem. I was wondering if you could shed some light on it as I am not getting very far with the EasyEDA support team. After attempting a design I felt the need to do a 'Route/Unroute All' and start again. This worked (sort of) as it brought the ratlines back but did not delete the ground plane. I could not find any specific means of deleting the ground plane apart from, what I would call, a hack. What I did was perform an 'Edit/Clear all' which (seemed to) delete averything, then I did a Ctrl-Z and everything was restored except the ground plane! Is there a better way of deleting the ground plane? Many thanks. Jim
Thanks Colin! Appreciate the time you're taking to explaining this to people. I use EasyEDA all the time and I keep discovering new things I did not know. I want to do a EasyEDA Quick Tips video and I'm going to use a few of yours if I may ;)
Hi Colin Hickey. Thanks for your great video, it was very helpful! Do you know if penalization also possible is for out sticking connectors? For more then 2 x 2 pcb's?
Great information to begin with. Do you have any further material? How can I contact you? I need to learn pretty fast, facing a project right now and I have lot of questions about this tool, hope you can provide more info, thanks and stay safe!
how do u use the library like getting the item from there on too my canvas because your pic is in the way?............. it said dont drag click on the item than right click then place it where u want it
Thanks Colin, great series, it would be nice to see a sequel. If someone else has the serial number, can they order the pcb online? other question, is it possible to make a printout to make a testboard at home? What is your experience with delivery times?
Hi Delivery times are normally pretty great. Re a testboard you can make anything you wish, that is the beauty of designing your own boards. Re the serial number you can share your designs and many people do on the easyeda editor so you can see how others have designed things.
Hi Colin! I have a question about paneling: If I have a panel of pcbs, the quantity I'm selecting is the number of panels, not cutted pcbs, right? Like in your example, as there are 4 pcbs per panel and you selected "10", you would have 40 pcbs in the end, correct?
Yes so when your selecting say 10 that is how many panels your getting so if you did it a 2 x 2 panel so 4 pcb's as you say you'd end up with 40 pcb's in total.
I'm learning this right now. I watched you set of videos and several opthers. I'm creating two PCBs pretty similar to the one in this video (one for ESP8266 D1 Mini and one for ESP32 30 pin, slightly different capabilities in the two PCBs). I designed with copper ground plane. I was pretty close to ordering when I wondered if the copper ground plane might interfere with Wifi. I did some reading (including the design guide from Espressif) and discovered they strongly recommend not putting even traces under the antenna and a ground plane is reported to be worse. In your design, the entire underside of the antenna is a ground plane. I was wondering if your Wemos continued to work well on Wifi on this board? One Reddit post said they their ESP32 (or ESP8266?) couldn't connect to Wifi at all and discovered the issue was the ground plane. So, I've redesigned and moved the antennas off the PCB as much as possible and additionally removed the ground plane from under most of the ESP32/ESP8266 (but enough to still have the additional convenience -- the ground plane makes routing so much easier!).
Yes normally removing the ground plane from under the antenna is a great idea and shall help massively. Also avoiding components which could affect the quality under the wemos is a good idea.
Hi i got it wrong on my example as i mentioned in the discription. Usually the centre pin shall be positive on a barrel jack but some supplies reverse this so i would look at the diagram on your supply you will be using and design your board around that.
Great series to watch 😁 EasyEDA has changed a lot in the past year, so much new features. One thing though... At what point did u notice you created one of those evil center negative boards? 😈 😅
Hi Colin, good day! This is Alice, a manufacturer specializing in PCB production for over 15 years. What kind of boards do you need me to help you produce?
The copper layer if your refering tot he ground plane allows you to connect all the grounds together without needing to run connections between them manually. It can also be used for head disipation.
![Noob To Max With DRAGON REWORK In Blox Fruits [FULL MOVIE]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/LnBMOinoOvA/mqdefault.jpg)
Thank you for this great 3 episode series. Really got me started in no time. I'd love to have your picture in picture frame down on the lower right corner of the screen as it was blocking many of the tools you clicked. Excellent work!
Hi thanks for the kind words and appreciate the feedback. Doing another in the series so shall take onboard all the advice :-)
I've just come across your videos Colin, these are the best I've seen showing how to use EDA, even there offical videos don't explain it so clearly, thanks for making these.
That was one of the best videos that I have watched in months. You have a gift: natural teacher.
I've just finished binging through the series - it was easy to follow and useful, thank you!
Thanks The Tinker Tad really appreciate you taking the time to comment, look forward to your future designs.
Please can someone help me out I just maked a schematics on easyeda but when I try to convert it to a pcb it dose nothing I have saved the schematic but it still won’t convert it to a pcb if someone no’s why or can you help please can you or can I email you with a pic to show what it’s doing
Probably the best tutorials on EasyEDA I could find so far. It would be nice if you could add more on EasyEDA guides and explaining available tools.
Thanks, will do!
Fantastic,
Best beginners series I have come across. I was seriously thinking I would have yo pay someone to design an EXCEEDINGLY simple board. But you have given me the confidence to try it again.
Very much appreciated
Wow, thanks!
Short but not to end your series. hope for the future video to learn more. Thank you.
Great tutorial. One very informative thing I learnt from other tutorials, elsewhere, was that before you lay out your PCB, always review and set the design rules of the manufacturer. That way, the track widths and clearings will be considered by the PCB layout software as you do the manual routing. The software, knowing the rules, will not allow you to violate them, for example by placing your traces too close to each other. That would save you headache when you try to order your board. You did not touch on this fact with any emphasis. I wonder how you feel about it. Thank you again for the great tutorial series.
Great advice on the design rules, it does make life easier when it comes to getting the boards built. I think also looking at track widths depending on how much current you want to carry would be good also.
Great little series Colin, really enjoyed it - makes me want to try out EasyEDA and not worry so much about mastering Eagle!
Its also worth knowing that you can combine postage on several boards. Also, you can get reduced shipping on components from LCSC when the board is in production so its worth getting everything ready in advance since the chances are that your board will only be in production for 24hrs or less - blink and it will be on its way!
Thanks John, great advice, i've used LCSC a couple of times and i must say it's nice knowing that a component will be the right size/genuine etc rather than the ali express lottery which you can sometimes have.
These 3 videos were perfect for a beginner like me, dude. Thanks for putting effort into them!
Thank you for these videos, I truly recommend them if you are starting with EasyEDA
You are welcome!
thank you so much for this tutorial i followed it carefully and i ordered my very first PCB from JLCPCB should arrive any day now! :)
Brilliant, thanks for taking the time to comment. I was nervous about doing the tutorial so glad it's helped at least one person :-)
loved the series of videos, really learned alot. thanks
Great instructions and well presented. Unfortunately I find the video overlay very distracting. Is there an option to hide the video? John.
Really excellent videos, just ordered my first PCB for a little ESPhome project. thanks!
a great series of videos. Thank you, I now feel I'm able to get my first set of boards made via this software.
Thank you I really appreciate the kind words.
Love the series, would be great if u could have large ui for phone viewers. Thank you for the informative videos.
Thanks for the 3 videos. Really clear, easy to understand and to learn from. One small comment: your video when minimized is located on top right, hiding some of the menu and options. In the future, you may want to consider placing it on bottom right.
Thanks for the tip!
This 3 videos answered all my questions in a very compact way.
Thank you soooo much.
Watched all of the series. OUTSTANDING....very concise tutorial very organized, good flow. Would like to see the BOM process and ordering parts. Also want to see how to create schematic symbols, and PCB footprints for same part, preferably a SMD part. Then maybe a simulation using the simulation part of the schematic tool.
Many thanks for the kind words, good to know it has helped :-) i shall look at doing some more follow up videos soon
Yes very good series. I was wondering if you'd consider doing a follow up to this one which shows how to make changes to a board? I'm finding that component changes are not easily done. So perhaps something which goes through an easy change, where if the part is the same size you can just make the swap out, to a slightly more complicated one and what you need to do on the schematic as well as the pcb to get it to work. I find that there's no one who's done this type of video.
Thanks for the great suggestion, i do plan on more videos so will add that to the list.
Great videos. Thanks. Can you share how can I test our board like simulation? Before printing.
like the STAMP HOLE. Can you make a part 4 of this series telling us how to make a circuit with a flexible parts? I want to know how to make it in EasyEDA, Thanks
Hi Colin, Great video's, I'm new to Schematics and PCB design and found your set of 3 videos very helpful.I am quite old but still like to learn, and in the past few years have taught myself basic Arduino Programming and 3D Design using Fusion 360. But decided I wanted to have a go at designing some PCB boards for my projects. Hence why I watched your video's. I always try to solve problems myself but sometimes get stuck and was wondering if you mined people asking you questions regard EasyEDA? Thanks again for the Video's. I have subscribed in the hope you will do more.
Thanks for the tutorial, really helpful! I have just placed an order for my first PCB!
Cheers for these Colin...deffo going to dive in and start doing some boards!
Thanks Kris really appreciate the kind comments, glad your back making videos again :-)
Thank you Colin, very helpful video. I would really like to see a video on the workflow from EasyEDA to JLCpcb's new pcb assembly service. There would possibly be others interested in this as well.
Hi Peter, in my conversations with EasyEDA they've mentioned doing a video on the PCB assembly so might well take them up on their offer.
@@Chickey I would be most interested. There are a lot of videos on EastEDA and also on the new PCB assembly service. However nobody has yet showed how they can be used together as a process to produce a completed item.
Very helpful series. Thanks!
Great upload - very easy to understand on all parts 1,2 and 3. Thanks.
Thank you for this tutorial series! easy to understand and follow!
really enjoyed your videos and i'm keeping them as my reference videos great tutorial
Thank you for the kind words!
A way to remove just the net you are interested in is to double click on the net name under Design Manager->Nets. A pop-up should appear asking if you want to unroute just that net. You can also use Shift+B to rebuild the ground plane. To help with those clearances when using the autorouter, you can set the clearance for each rule which can help ensure that those default 10mil clearances are overridden for certain nets.
Though I find it odd that they complained about the 1.6mm spacing for v-scores as I tend to use 0mm for my boards which used to be the default. And yes, always do custom size for your stencil. I got the default size once before I knew any better and it is absolutely huge.
Thanks for the comments. Yeah the vscore complaint confused me as well. If i remember rightly the boards which i panalised at checkout on jlcpcb automatically did 0mm spacing.
Absolutely smashing vids. Looking forward to showing off my projects on proper pcbs!
Many thanks for the kind words, good to know it has helped :-)
What happened to the 5v connection to the barrel connector? Can see it from wemos to capacitor but that's it. Also noticed you were a bit hesitant when you could see the cost. Your panalised board is 111cm wide so outside the 100x100mm standard. Been there, tried to do that. Thank again for a great set of videos.
Thanks for the comments, choosing a 1x2 panel may have been a better example. Re hesitation i think i had forgotten i'd panalised the board so seemed more till my brain caught up :-) I'll have to check the 5v connection, it's possible i mangled something in the video edit but to be honest it was more about showing the concepts.
If you mean, why the 5v did not become routed? The 5v was on the bottom side, so that's why it didn't show.
Excellent series of videos, thank you. Off to design my first PCB :-)
Many thanks for the kind words, good to know it has helped :-)
Hello Colin, by the sound of your accent you do not live too far away from me. I live in a place called Cleadon, mid way between Sunderland and South Shields - whereabouts are you?
I have just started using EasyEDA and have encountered a problem. I was wondering if you could shed some light on it as I am not getting very far with the EasyEDA support team.
After attempting a design I felt the need to do a 'Route/Unroute All' and start again. This worked (sort of) as it brought the ratlines back but did not delete the ground plane. I could not find any specific means of deleting the ground plane apart from, what I would call, a hack. What I did was perform an 'Edit/Clear all' which (seemed to) delete averything, then I did a Ctrl-Z and everything was restored except the ground plane! Is there a better way of deleting the ground plane?
Many thanks.
Jim
Hi Colin, I was wondering if you could tell me how to add dil packages to my schematic diagram. I'm working with picaxe IC's.
Hi I have ideas for more videos in the series (for some time now) and doing a custom part with footprint will be one of them.
Thanks Colin! Appreciate the time you're taking to explaining this to people. I use EasyEDA all the time and I keep discovering new things I did not know. I want to do a EasyEDA Quick Tips video and I'm going to use a few of yours if I may ;)
Thanks Dustin, glad it was of use and of course use any tips you want from my video.
Thanks for this. It would have been handy to have your cam on the bottom so we could see the toolbar as you were pressing it.
Sorry about that i realised a couple of things like that after i had captured all the footage.
@@Chickey No problem boss. It was still an extremely informative video.
Hi Colin Hickey. Thanks for your great video, it was very helpful! Do you know if penalization also possible is for out sticking connectors? For more then 2 x 2 pcb's?
Great information to begin with.
Do you have any further material? How can I contact you?
I need to learn pretty fast, facing a project right now and I have lot of questions about this tool, hope you can provide more info, thanks and stay safe!
Hi glad you enjoyed the videos, sorry i do not have time to help on individual projects.
how do u use the library like getting the item from there on too my canvas because your pic is in the way?............. it said dont drag click on the item than right click then place it where u want it
wonderful videos, please make more, very useful
Excelent series! Thanks!
Thank you for the kind words!
thanks man, very helpfull series!
No problem!
Thanks Colin, great series, it would be nice to see a sequel. If someone else has the serial number, can they order the pcb online? other question, is it possible to make a printout to make a testboard at home? What is your experience with delivery times?
Hi Delivery times are normally pretty great. Re a testboard you can make anything you wish, that is the beauty of designing your own boards. Re the serial number you can share your designs and many people do on the easyeda editor so you can see how others have designed things.
Thanks for doing the videos Colin, even though i use EasyEDA already it was very useful to see as it showed me some things i did not know. Keep it up.
Aptly , great job Sir,. very interesting.. Thank you very much indeed.
How do you color the pcb like that
Hi Colin!
I have a question about paneling: If I have a panel of pcbs, the quantity I'm selecting is the number of panels, not cutted pcbs, right? Like in your example, as there are 4 pcbs per panel and you selected "10", you would have 40 pcbs in the end, correct?
Yes so when your selecting say 10 that is how many panels your getting so if you did it a 2 x 2 panel so 4 pcb's as you say you'd end up with 40 pcb's in total.
I'm learning this right now. I watched you set of videos and several opthers. I'm creating two PCBs pretty similar to the one in this video (one for ESP8266 D1 Mini and one for ESP32 30 pin, slightly different capabilities in the two PCBs). I designed with copper ground plane. I was pretty close to ordering when I wondered if the copper ground plane might interfere with Wifi. I did some reading (including the design guide from Espressif) and discovered they strongly recommend not putting even traces under the antenna and a ground plane is reported to be worse. In your design, the entire underside of the antenna is a ground plane. I was wondering if your Wemos continued to work well on Wifi on this board? One Reddit post said they their ESP32 (or ESP8266?) couldn't connect to Wifi at all and discovered the issue was the ground plane. So, I've redesigned and moved the antennas off the PCB as much as possible and additionally removed the ground plane from under most of the ESP32/ESP8266 (but enough to still have the additional convenience -- the ground plane makes routing so much easier!).
Yes normally removing the ground plane from under the antenna is a great idea and shall help massively. Also avoiding components which could affect the quality under the wemos is a good idea.
How does one figure out the pinout of the barrel connector?
Hi i got it wrong on my example as i mentioned in the discription. Usually the centre pin shall be positive on a barrel jack but some supplies reverse this so i would look at the diagram on your supply you will be using and design your board around that.
Great series to watch 😁 EasyEDA has changed a lot in the past year, so much new features.
One thing though... At what point did u notice you created one of those evil center negative boards? 😈 😅
About 1 hr after I uploaded it and it started getting views already so couldn't delete it lol
Wonderful!
Hi Colin, good day! This is Alice, a manufacturer specializing in PCB production for over 15 years. What kind of boards do you need me to help you produce?
Can't see many tools on upper right hand of screen, hard to follow along
Hello sir, can you explain me what cooper layer do exactly please ?
The copper layer if your refering tot he ground plane allows you to connect all the grounds together without needing to run connections between them manually. It can also be used for head disipation.
@@Chickey just all ground ? Not all pins?
@@skepsis9238 Copper is used to connect the pins also yes.
Is there a way to panelize different pcb designs?
No with the default options there is no way in EasyEDA as far as i'm aware.
excellent guide.
Great video, appreciate it
Great walk through, thanks. Subscribed also....
Thank you for the kind words and the sub, new content out soon i promise!
@@Chickey Looking forward to it. I made my first board using your videos as a guide - fun!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
You are so welcome!
Great work, i was wondering how can contact you for my project that i'm working on now? thanks in advance. .
Hi, my business contact details are in the about section on YT. I'm stowed off right now though.
Thank you very much.
Many thanks for the kind words, good to know it has helped :-)
Good series, but it would have had a lot more value if the visual of you did not cover most of the things of interest in part 2 and part 3!
Hi Colin can you get back to me regarding making a pcb thanks
Thanks mate.👍
Very nice!
Thanks!
The camera is on a very bad place, but nice video XD
Thankyou yes, many comments mentioning the same. shall ensure they are not next time.
I yesterday ordered pcb and i am watching this video today 🥹