Public:Electrical Onboarding 2021

This page is created to integrate all the electrical onboarding links onto a single page and help provide a flow for the onboarding process. In general, there will be 4 methods of accessing all the electrical team's information for onboarding:

• Slack (please check regularly!)
• GitHub
• Google Drive
• Wiki

GitHub Instructions

GitHub is a tool we use to share all of our work as a team. It is a great way to ensure all the current work stays updated and there are very little conflicts when working together. Most industry professionals use GitHub for code, however we also use it with our KiCad projects as well as code.

1. Go to the GitHub wiki page and ensure you have a working version of Git on your computer. Look through the Installing Git section of the page.
2. Look through Jarod's git youtube tutorials to get a better understanding of why we use git as well as a few basic commands
3. If you'd like more practice with Git, checkout these other interactive tutorials to learn more:
   • Interactive tutorial: https://try.github.io/
   • Git Branching: https://learngitbranching.js.org/

KiCad Instructions

KiCad is an electrical CADing software that our team uses to design the custom circuit boards (aka PCBs) for the solar car. All of our designs exist on the Illini Solar Car GitHub page in the PCB repository. You will clone this repository and any hardware contribution you make to the team will be in here forever :)

1. Clone the GitHub PCB repository onto your computer by following the Initial Setup instructions here.
2. Go through the KiCad First Time Setup instructions
3. Follow Rahul's KiCad youtube tutorial series (only the first 3 videos for now) to complete the first introduction project to familiarize yourself with the software
4. Start working on the Onboarding Projects below! We created a series of projects to act as goals to progress yourselves with KiCad. We have 2 intro projects planned out for now and a 3rd as an optional project. Depending on your pace we could add more. You don’t have to complete all of them. Just do your best :D
5. While working on the onboarding projects take a look at these useful guidelines.
   • KiCad Schematic Conventions - has information about specifics regarding each part of the schematic design from naming conventions to symbol creation to part selection
   • KiCad Layout Standards - has information about the design guidelines for PCBs and illustrates what is allowed and what isn't
6. After Completing each onboarding project watch the 4th video from the KiCad playlist (I havent created it yet) and put your work on the PCB repository

KiCad Onboarding Projects:

1. Onboarding Goal 1
   • Requires 2 buttons, and 2 LEDs
   • When button 1 is pressed, LED 1 turns on
   • When both buttons are pressed, both LEDs are on
   • When only button 2 is pressed, neither LED is turned on
2. Onboarding Goal 2
   • Requires 3 buttons and 1 LED
   • When all buttons are pressed, the LED turns off
   • Else, the circuit remains turned on
3. Onboarding Goal 3 (OPTIONAL CHALLENGE PROJECT)
   • 2 inputs and 1 LED output
   • When both buttons are not pressed, the light is off
   • When both buttons are pressed, the light is off
   • Only one button can be pressed for the light to turn on