Allow easier fabrication with JLCPCB

[AirborneEagle]

I am totally new to the world of PCB making and assembly.
Do you have a cpl file that you could include?

[StuckAtPrototype]

ill add it to the list, thats a good point!

[TexGG]

I was gonna ask the same. The project look amasing, the CPL will hepl produce the circuit easier :)

[MrYawnie]

Any progress with the CPL files?

[mr-ukas]

I created a pick&place file from Kicad. First time in my life, so better double check : D
For getting a PCBA-manufacturer's quote, it should be good enough 👍

PCB top edited to match JLCPCB requirements to format.
racer-top-pos.csv
CPL_miniRacer_position_pickNplace_JLC_top.xlsx
racer-bottom-pos.csv

[mr-ukas]

all revision V0.2

[andistorm]

I created a pick&place file from Kicad

Nice @mr-ukas, can you open a PR, please?
I would place it in hardware/racer/manfucaturing/jlc/

all revision V0.2

What do you mean by this? Is it not based on master branch?

[andistorm]

@mr-ukas

I would really appreciate if you could add furthermore a short how-to-prepare-for-jlc.md file where you explain the steps you have done 👀

[mr-ukas]

What do you mean by this? Is it not based on master branch?
It's the master branch. I just wanted to add this information about the revision, in case somebody will update the revision in the future.

where you explain the steps you have done 👀

I just re-named the columns according to this guide here:
https://jlcpcb.com/help/article/pick-place-file-for-pcb-assembly

[andistorm]

I just re-named the columns according to this guide here

Oh wow, you typed in all the rows by hand? I would have thought there is some tooling to achieve this.

Did you have a look at this guide?

[mr-ukas]

Did you have a look at this guide?

yes, true, this page was my starting point.
I used also the MS excel to import the CSV-file to a regular excel sheet. This transferred the rows to proper columns, which had to be re-named ✌️

[mr-ukas]

Feel free to creat a pull request to merge the files. I have no idea how this is done. It's late here :D

[andistorm]

Feel free to creat a pull request to merge the files.

Probably I will, but I want to try to generate this files by myself for this

[fschrempf]

I'm usually using Aisler to order PCBs (and optionally parts/assembly). They allow to upload the KiCad PCB file and get all the required data from it. For matching the components automatically it requires a "MPN" field to be set as the "Manufacturer Part Number". I don't know the requirements for JLCPCB, but it would be great if we could also add the MPN field.