This is 7-week skill building course for students to learn how to grow from a breadboard to a custom surface mount board, without leaving the floor. Prototyping circuitry is getting easier and cheaper, and the tools and processes available at ITP allow students to cheaply make their circuits any shape and aesthetic they want, while increasing robustness and reproducibility. Students will learn a new tool or process each week, and using using those new skills to build a final project. They will learn such as how to work with surface mount parts, etch a board design, read a schematic , design a circuit, and use a micro-milling machine. Other areas that may be covered include acid etching, schematics, designing circuits in illustrator and Eagle, and using the OtherMill. Students will present a final project of their choosing during the final class.

Andrew Sigler