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Add kicad and gerber versions of shield design #39

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…lso add gerber and drill exports for fabrication.
@vthunder vthunder marked this pull request as draft July 16, 2024 06:40
vthunder added 3 commits July 16, 2024 00:08
Now features:
* A linked schematic matching the Eagle one except cosmetic or Kicad specific requirements (e.g., power flags).
* References have been hidden and labels placed to match the Eagle ones, which are incompatible with Kicad.
* Cosmetic changes in schematic and layout to account for font, etc differences.
* Version updated to "1.4TH Rev A" to make it clear it's a new variant--though should be functionally the same.
@vthunder vthunder marked this pull request as ready for review August 13, 2024 03:51
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dl1com commented Sep 23, 2024

@VIPQualityPost would you mind to take a short view on this PR?

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The layout of directory does not make a ton of sense to me. We should try to re-sort it so that there is a single directory for all files related to the KiCad parts and a different one related to the Eagle parts (do we need to even keep these around @dl1com ? They are retained in version control, nobody is using Eagle anymore and these files are probably bitrotted anyway)

Schematic:
The symbols in schematic have not really been 'updated' to KiCad symbols, which to me is fine, but I do think it's problematic that the manufacturing information is not included in the fields, we need to include a field for part vendor, part number at the minimum (to ID headers, ICs, etc). Ideally also a mouser or digikey part number.
Screenshot 2024-09-28 at 7 54 14 PM

PCB:
It might be nice on silkscreen layer to indicate what connectors are for what models, it seems a common issue when assembling the board that users are confused and making incorrect choices, but the manual/build instruction also maybe could be a bit clearer.

There also was a comment from @jonathanperret this week in Discord about accidentally marring the board during assembly causing short from +15V to +5V, killing Arduino. I don't think it makes much sense to have a pour for +5V , especially on an outer layer, we might want to just fix this now so that in the future it's not problems for anyone (the action requested here being that the pour on top layer is changed to GND net instead of +5V, and that the pour clearance increased from 0.4mm to something larger, maybe 0.75mm.)

Overall looks great, thanks for the contributions!

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