The past months I was trying to figure out the sort of engineering I want to pursue and saw that I have general enthusiasm in hardware and PCB design. in the past, I’ve made some hardware but nothing industrial. I used to use KiCad which is Open Source, while cool to use, not used in hardware industries here in Egypt.

So I decide to learn Altium and Start a new serious industrial project, I stumbled upon Roberts Course Learn to Design Your Own , I found the idea of making a dev board while learning Altium very appealing.

The course goes around the process from schematic creation, library management, sourcing components, using Arduino reference design, Pcb design, placement, routing, and finally the fabrication outputs.

The course is slow-paced and Robert takes the liberty to do everything on the screen.

The dev board he makes is two layers and based on Arduino Uno, he at various stages criticizes the Arduino design and shows the ways their design could be improved.

Overall, I was happy with the course but after I finished it I found the Arduino Board to simple of a project to bother with.

The dev board I currently design is an arm Cortex-M7 – based with 4 layers and more challenges to learn from, you will hear about it here after I get it working which I hope is soon.