{"id":100,"date":"2015-11-29T16:58:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T00:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2021-02-27T19:03:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T03:03:15","slug":"printed-circuit-boards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nickmccomb.net\/college\/printed-circuit-boards","title":{"rendered":"PCB Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

This page contains documentation for my Printed Circuit Board projects. All of the designs that are on this page have been manufactured and exist in real life, but renders are displayed here for consistency’s sake. Other projects that I’m working on do exist, but as long as they don’t have a physical PCB they aren’t documented here (although they might be elsewhere on this site).<\/p>\nLearn more about my PCB Design process...<\/span>

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I have done many designs for work (Ocean Mixing Group) that have been deployed in research equipment, such as ROSS<\/a>, and have been deployed across the world. If you want to see some of the PCBs described here in actual use, check out the page describing ROSS\u2019s Electronic Boxes<\/a>.<\/div>\n
My primary designing platform is Altium Designer (acquired using a student license at OSU). I\u2019m largely self-taught as many of the resources for AD are usually paid for, and surprisingly OSU doesn’t offer a PCB Design class of any sort. I\u2019ve made inroads into things like Differential Routing<\/a> and Hierarchical Design<\/a>, and I\u2019m always working on my skills and trying to improve my processes.<\/div>\n
Typically, I use www.PCBWay.com<\/a> to manufacture my PCBs. They\u2019re a fantastic fabrication house in China that offers great prices\u00a0and are very fast.<\/div>\n
I\u2019ve also designed and manufactured over a dozen circuit boards in High-School using a custom etching process, such as the one’s seen in\u00a0this picture [link]<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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