

Recommend an easy circuit sketching tool?įor simple drawings like ESP32 pinouts I use the free version of EasyEDA there's an online version or a downloadable app.Shipping is usually more than the actual boards for me. Altium CircuitStudio is a stripped down version of Altium Designer (what most people refer to as Altium). Draw the board you want on, then automagically order them through jlcpcb. Is there alternative cheap way of making pcbs ? Is there a 'thingiverse' for PCB schematics? There are a million YouTube tutorials on this. Look at EasyEDA if this sounds of interest to you. This will allow you to make it very low profile and fit inside your 3D printed enclosure.

Circuit Studio - this is targetted at professionals, and in theory is just a somewhat simplified Altium Designer, and is about half the cost of AD. Altium supports simply opening the Circuit Studio schematic file in Altium Designer, however the PCB file must be imported.To import a Circuit Studio PCB file into Altium Designer:Make sure Altium Designer is updated to at least 15.1.13Install the ‘Altium PCB’ importer. Questions about wiring led strips together into a controllerĭepending how far you want to take this you may want to eventually look at PCB design and turning your breadboard prototype into a printed circuit board. Altium Designer - this is their flagship product, targetted at professional users, and runs around 5-10k per license. is another local option that is easy to use but last time I tried it would crash on me all the time making it basically unusable. Other popular option (but with a much steeper learning curve) are kcad, but I have always found that to be clunky UI. Personally I find and easier to get started with. For designing them there are various tools out there.
