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What You're Actually Making

What a PCB Physically Is

Installing KiCad

Checking your understanding of PCB layers

How KiCad Thinks

Schematic Editor and PCB Editor

Symbols and Footprints

Checking your understanding of the two editors

Checking your understanding of footprints

Starting Your Project

Creating a Project

Importing the XIAO Symbol

KiCad or EasyEDA

Review

Session 5 Interactive Review

Session 5 of 8. Getting into KiCad — what a PCB physically is, installing the software, the difference between symbols and footprints, and importing the XIAO RP2040 library.

KiCad is free, open source, and used to design real commercial hardware. This session covers what a
circuit board physically is, how KiCad splits the job into two separate editors, and the
symbol-versus-footprint distinction that confuses every beginner until it suddenly doesn't.

Session 5 — Into KiCad

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