Getting To Blinky 5.0 - Finishing The Layout

[@nickst2797]

Dude you seem like a genuinely good person (from your facial characteristics). BTW, i am almost finishing my second board on Kicad that i learnt from your playlist. So thanks a lot!

[@TheMadMagician87]

Thanks for all the effort that has gone into this series, very helpful to a newbie. Should let me move along my own first real world project! Onwards, to Output Files for Manufacturing!

[@olivierbetschi9770]

Really interesting. Adding some silkscreen info for the polarity of the diode on the pcb can be useful if you are soldering everything by hand.

[@lincolnmicrophonellc]

Great tip!

[@NikosTamias]

Isn't that why the outline of the diode on the layout is bold on one side?

[@olivierbetschi9770]

@@NikosTamias Yes...I did not see it here, but I realized the silkscreenz is not symmetrical in the next video in the series, my bad. In any case when there are components that are not symmetrical, if you have the room I think its a good idea to put a mark on the silkscreen (so for diodes, polarized caps, etc...)

[@Vanne89]

love the content your producing - some super use-full tips helped me make my first pcb Yay!

[@slick8086]

Thank you so very much! I followed GTB 4.0 and this one is really great too!

[@lpanebr]

This is magic.

[@kermitfrog1897]

how does one add pads for pcb mounting holes? thanks

[@johngarrett5095]

@ 21:20 Isn't the VDD pad from the battery shorted directly to ground?

[@Heuamoebe]

That confused me as well. Must be a rendering error. At 22:33 you see that it is correctly isolated from the flooded ground pad.

[@RoastLambShanks]

@@Heuamoebe This confused me too, I actually redraw my battery VDD via again to see if I mucked up. But if listen he says, hit B to redraw. When you do that it correct the rendering problem. ;-)

[@MrEdwardhartmann]

is there actually a problem with placing the via on a pad or is that just your preference?

[@stephenalegge]

A via-in-pad needs to be capped and depending on where you get your board made it might cost you more or they might not be set up to do it so you are better off avoiding it until you actually need it for space or trace length reasons

[@MrEdwardhartmann]

@@stephenalegge Thanks - that's good to know.

[@3ykei]

I'm a little confused - It seems you never explicitly say that the battery holder is positioned on the underside, while all other components are on the top side. How did Kicad know this?

[@cts006]

At 3:13 Chris pressed the F key to flip the holder to the back layer of the board.

[@3ykei]

@@cts006 thanks

[@MrNoipe]

THR is mislabeled.

[@RonaldBovender]

This is a very interesting series and potentially quite helpful learning Kicad. However, Chris speaks faster than he can think. Extremely difficult to keep up with him. He is also quite spastic with his mouse clicks, it compares to an old time movie that flickers, his screen shots are so fast it is a guess as to what he did before he is off to the next screen. He is obviously an expert on the topic very knowledgeable. Thanks Chris but slow down!!

[@georgepeden]

Was keeping up until this video. You really talk and move fast, so for someone brand new to the application and process I found it hard to keep up and figure out what you were doing. "Flip it around", etc. Also, I am using Kicad version 8.0 - not sure how much the UIK has changed since this video...

[@JohnSmith-xn3fr]

If Getting To Blinky 5.0 series was intended for beginners, it should have been filmed and narrated much slower, actually showing what "buttons" you clicked on. Not that I must rewind your videos every now and then. Also, keyboard shortcuts should've been explained AND put into the screen. Bad tutorial.

[@schoggo3407]

I think it's better to press j every once in a while than having to watch the whole thing at 1.25x speed like many other tutorials where people always pause for serveral seconds when speaking. It might be a little fast for some people but that doesn't make it a bad tutorial in general.