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A project log for Stripboard Meets KiCad

Using KiCad to design and layout stripboard PCB projects

mike-teachmanMike Teachman 02/01/2020 at 20:170 Comments

I ordered another lot of 5 PCBs, again using JLCPCB as the supplier.  The total cost, including shipping was CAD $15.00 (USD $11.33).  This time the PCBs were manufactured with blue solder mask rather than black.  Order to delivery at my home was about 2 weeks.

For version 2 of the stripboard I made two improvements:

1.  On the top side, a grid was added to make it easier to count holes

2.  On the bottom side, white dots were added to the silkscreen indicating the direction of the stripboard tracks.  The dots are still a bit hard to see.  Using solid lines between the holes would be better... something for version 3.

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