Hey!  Great news.  Its time to take that project from breadboard to printed circuit board.  Anool (WyoLum co-founder and master designer) will be leading a workshop on KiCad in Northern VA at NOVA Labs September 13-15, 2013.  Sign ups now available.  Limited to first 15 students.

The goal of the weekend is for each student to complete a design, ready for submittal to a fabricator like OSHPark.

Project ideas:

• Custom Arduino compatible board
• An Arduino shield
• Motor controller
• Clock (our favorite)
• Custom NeoPixel board

We came up with this project while brain storming ways to offset the travel expenses for Anool’s to attend the Open Hardware Summit.  This seems like the best way to expand the Open Hardware movement and attain our funding goals.

You will learn how to take a project …

from a sketch

to schematic

to layout

to 3D view

to real life