xor-gate-toy

This is a simple quad XOR gate (74HC86) that is controlled by 8 key switches and outputs to 4 LEDS, all powered by a coin cell battery. This is implemented in KiCAD.

Why did you do this?

I wanted to challenge myself by designing a simple PCB without having to follow any YouTube tutorials. This means that I force myself to not copypasta whatever the tutorial did.

Great. The PCB has already been designed... How do I get it manufactured!?

Congratulations! Now your PCB should like like this:

Now you might be wondering, how do I get this manufactured by OshKosh, PCBWay, JLC, etc? This is just a dollar-store 3D model!

It's surprisingly easy! First, you must go to File > Fabrication Outputs > Gerbers(.gbr)...

Now, assuming that the design passes the Design Rule Check (DRC), you should hit Plot, which should generate the Gerber files. Then click Generate Drill Files... to generate the drill files (PCB manufacturing involves drilling holes after all! Especially for through hole parts.)

Then continue and click Generate Drill File

Now that your Gerber and Drill files are generated, go to your homepage and you should see the following files.

Now you can zip them and upload the .zip file to your manufacturer of choice! Congratulations!