KiCad Like A Pro (E-book Bundle)

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This bundle includes both volumes of "KiCad Like a Pro" (4th edition 2024). In Fundamentals and Projects (normal price: €39.95), you'll learn how to use KiCad through a practical approach, helping you quickly become productive and start designing your own boards. Advanced Projects and Recipes (normal price: €34.95) allows you to practice your new KiCad skills by challenging yourself with a series of real-world projects.


The latest iteration of KiCad, the world’s best free-to-use Printed Circuit Board tool, is packed with features usually found only in expensive commercial CAD tools. This modern, cross-platform application suite built around schematic and design editors, with auxiliary applications is a stable and mature PCB tool. KiCad 8 is a perfect fit for electronic engineers and makers.

Here are the most significant improvements and features in KiCad 8, both over and under the hood:

  • Modern user interface, completely redesigned from earlier versions
  • Improved and customizable electrical and design rule checkers
  • Theme editor allowing you to customize KiCad on your screen
  • Ability to import projects from Eagle, CADSTART, and more
  • Python scripting API
  • Improved integrated SPICE circuit simulator
  • Multi-sheet schematics
  • Filters define selectable elements
  • Enhanced interactive router helps you draw single tracks and differential pairs with precision
  • New or enhanced tools to draw tracks, measure distances, tune track lengths, etc.
  • Advanced interactive router
  • Built-in bill of materials generator
  • Realistic ray-tracing capable 3D viewer
  • Customizable teardrops
  • Plug-in manager for quick installation of themes, libraries and functionalities such as autorouters and BOM generators

The first book KiCad Like A Pro – Fundamentals and Projects will teach you to use KiCad through a practical approach. It will help you become productive quickly and start designing your own boards. Example projects illustrate the basic features of KiCad, even if you have no prior knowledge of PCB design. The author describes the entire workflow from schematic entry to the intricacies of finalizing the files for PCB production and offers sound guidance on the process.

The second book KiCad Like A Pro – Advanced Projects and Recipes will help you to practice your new KiCad skills by challenging you in a series of real-world projects. The projects are supported by a comprehensive set of recipes with detailed instructions on how to achieve a variety of simple and complex tasks. Design the PCBs for a solar power supply, an LED matrix array, an Arduino-powered datalogger, and a custom ESP32 board. Understand the finer details of the interactive router, how to manage KiCad project teams with Git, how to use an autorouter on 2 and 4-layer PCBs, and much more.



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    SKU: 20943
    Author: Peter Dalmaris
    Language: English
    Pages: 590 + 492
    Format: PDF

    Description

    This bundle includes both volumes of "KiCad Like a Pro" (4th edition 2024). In Fundamentals and Projects (normal price: €39.95), you'll learn how to use KiCad through a practical approach, helping you quickly become productive and start designing your own boards. Advanced Projects and Recipes (normal price: €34.95) allows you to practice your new KiCad skills by challenging yourself with a series of real-world projects.


    The latest iteration of KiCad, the world’s best free-to-use Printed Circuit Board tool, is packed with features usually found only in expensive commercial CAD tools. This modern, cross-platform application suite built around schematic and design editors, with auxiliary applications is a stable and mature PCB tool. KiCad 8 is a perfect fit for electronic engineers and makers.

    Here are the most significant improvements and features in KiCad 8, both over and under the hood:

    • Modern user interface, completely redesigned from earlier versions
    • Improved and customizable electrical and design rule checkers
    • Theme editor allowing you to customize KiCad on your screen
    • Ability to import projects from Eagle, CADSTART, and more
    • Python scripting API
    • Improved integrated SPICE circuit simulator
    • Multi-sheet schematics
    • Filters define selectable elements
    • Enhanced interactive router helps you draw single tracks and differential pairs with precision
    • New or enhanced tools to draw tracks, measure distances, tune track lengths, etc.
    • Advanced interactive router
    • Built-in bill of materials generator
    • Realistic ray-tracing capable 3D viewer
    • Customizable teardrops
    • Plug-in manager for quick installation of themes, libraries and functionalities such as autorouters and BOM generators

    The first book KiCad Like A Pro – Fundamentals and Projects will teach you to use KiCad through a practical approach. It will help you become productive quickly and start designing your own boards. Example projects illustrate the basic features of KiCad, even if you have no prior knowledge of PCB design. The author describes the entire workflow from schematic entry to the intricacies of finalizing the files for PCB production and offers sound guidance on the process.

    The second book KiCad Like A Pro – Advanced Projects and Recipes will help you to practice your new KiCad skills by challenging you in a series of real-world projects. The projects are supported by a comprehensive set of recipes with detailed instructions on how to achieve a variety of simple and complex tasks. Design the PCBs for a solar power supply, an LED matrix array, an Arduino-powered datalogger, and a custom ESP32 board. Understand the finer details of the interactive router, how to manage KiCad project teams with Git, how to use an autorouter on 2 and 4-layer PCBs, and much more.



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    Juan A.S.

    Excellent. Very helpful books. Complete and easy to read.

    I found only a need for improvement about files management rules: How work the files structure. How make security copies of a complete project. How create new versions of a complete project saving the previous one.....

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    Jacques M.
    Bien lire l'offre avant de commander

    En trouvant que 15 jours avaient passé depuis ma commande et en m'étonnant de ne rien recevoir, je me suis aperçu que c'étaient des e-books qui avaient été commandés que j'ai alors téléchargés.
    Du fait de mon age, j'ai une préférence pour l'écrit même si les mises à jour sont moins fréquentes .
    Tant pis aussi pour la langue utilisée et qui n'est pas ma langue maternelle.
    Je passerai donc du temps à traduire avec Google chapitre par chapitre.
    On est obligé de s'adapter quand le sujet (Kicad) est intéressant.

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