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

AS ALWAYS IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON ANY OF THIS PLEASE ASK US ON SLACK

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