r/ElectricalEngineering • u/Pleasant-Director-44 • 12h ago

Learning pcb from 0

So hey everyone recently i decide to learn pcb design so i enrolled in a masterclass and when he start to explain i can't understand anything .

Considering that i graduated from high school this year sooo tell me how to start should i start by learning Electronics basics or what ?

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u/pedalare 12h ago

Do you mean you want to learn detailed electronics design or simply PCB layout?

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u/Pleasant-Director-44 12h ago

Both

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u/trisket-bisket 11h ago

Good luck. Lots of background/supporting understanding is needed. I would separate the two topics entirely. Build a few circuits with some stuff online. Understand them then try to build a pcb.

Better yet if your instructor is working on building a board find out what circuit he is working to and study that exclusively. Let him teach you the pcb aspect

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u/texan_robot 11h ago

You need a reasonably detailed understanding of the fundamentals of electronics before you can successfully lay out anything but the very simplest board. To begin, I'd buy an arduino kit with a bunch of peripherals and start messing around. Look at the stuff that comes with the kit, decide on a simple project, like a fan that gets faster the closer your hand is to an ultrasonic distance sensor. A single sensor amd a single actuator. Then add more, and more, and once you have something interesting creating a mess on your breadboard you can design a simple CCA that makes the same connections.

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u/bones222222 9h ago

use google. use youtube.

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u/catdude142 8h ago

You'll only be able to design slow circuits and simple designs. Without learning electronics, you'll be very limited to conduction path PC design vs. stuff that requires signal integrity and proper grounding and decoupling.

You need to know electronics and know it well to be a valuable PC design asset.