KiCad Like a Pro 5e

KiCad Like a Pro, 5th edition

Learn to design and manufacture PCBs with KiCad 10.

A four-volume book that takes you from your very first board to high-speed design. It is built on KiCad 10, and I am writing it in the open.

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KiCad Like a Pro, 5th edition — book cover

This is a work in progress, and that is the point

I am writing the 5th edition in the open. Volume 1 is complete and published for early adopters. Volume 2 is underway. Volumes 3 and 4 are planned.

When you buy today, you get Volume 1 in full plus early access to the remaining volumes as they grow, and you lock in the lowest price it will ever have. Every volume I finish, and every update I make, arrives in your account at no extra cost. As an early adopter you also get access to the book's community space, at the Community Tier level, and you keep it for good.

While I am still writing the book, you read it online, inside your Tech Explorations account. It will look like a course in there, that's simply how the reading platform is built, but it holds your copy of the book, growing volume by volume as I complete it. Downloadable PDF and EPUB copies arrive once every volume is complete. See the full FAQ if you have questions about buying or reading.

You will not just read about PCBs, you will make them

Two real boards by the end of Volume 1

This is a project book. You design two real boards, a breadboard power supply and a tiny solar power supply, produce their manufacturing files (the 'Gerbers' and a bill of materials), and know exactly how to send them to a fabricator and get them back in your hands.

Breadboard PSU — layout editor
Breadboard PSU — Gerber preview
Tiny solar PSU — 3D board render
Tiny solar PSU — layout editor

Four volumes, four real skills

What is in the book

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