If you qualify for this, or know someone that would - kicad is a great tool to learn, and probably the defacto standard for designing pcb's now that EAGLE has been discontinued.<p>But, I want to give a shoutout to easyeda.com. You can export straight to jlcpcb and it has parts integration with their preferred supplier lcsc.com so that you can do turnkey assembled boards from jlcpcb. It gets really interesting once you start designing with smaller surface mount components that might be too hard to solder at home.
I'm writing a series of articles on designing a microcontroller board (with an ATmega328P) from scratch [1]. It's a totally different experience from just breadboarding.<p>Some people are making NFC business cards, USB Hubs, and even smartwatches!<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/hackclub/hackclub/pull/1852">https://github.com/hackclub/hackclub/pull/1852</a>
Very cool initiative, i have developed inkscape extension for making creative pcb art, you might be interested in: <a href="https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen">https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen</a> its a combination of inskacpe and kicad, so everything is open source
This is really cool! This would have been amazing when I was a teenager. The donate link is <a href="https://bank.hackclub.com/donations/start/hq" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bank.hackclub.com/donations/start/hq</a>