Welcome to the Electrical System!

Environment

Install these tools!

• Git & GitHub

  • Download Git for version control

  • Make a user account on GitHub to get added to our organization

  • How to Git

  • Github SSH key

• KiCAD

  • Download KiCAD v8 to view our PCBs

  • Setting up KiCAD

• VSCode

  • Get VSCode, our preferred software development enviroment

  • Setting up an Embedded Development Environment

Quick Access

Hardware

• Learning KiCAD

  • LHR YouTube Tutorials

  • How to use common KiCAD Libraries

  • Finding part files for KiCAD

  • How to create a PCB Bill of Materials (BOM)

• Phil's Lab: Many example projects with in-depth design reviews here

  • STM32 KiCAD Tutorial by Phil

• Starter Project - Fan Board

• Battery Information Reference

Software

• Intoduction to Unix/Linux

• How to Git

  • Git documentation

  • Git commands cheat sheet

  • Git Katas

  • Learn Git Branching

  • Atlassian Git Tutorial

• Learn C

  • The C Bible

• Makefile by Example

• Valvano's Embedded Systems Textbook (ECE319)

• RTOS Fundamentals

  • FreeRTOS Developer Docs

• Flashing and Debugging Code on an MCU

• Interrupt MemFault Blog

• STM32F413 Reference Manual