Getting Started

Prerequisites 

• Have a computer with Windows installed on it
• Altium Account (Contact Taiping Lior Titus Chow)
• Altium Designer 19
• Git
  • Git, or 
  • Windows Subsystem for Linux (Windows 10 only)

After installing these on your computer, create a new folder somewhere convenient. This will be where the team's Hardware Repository will be located.

In this folder, launch your git client and enter the following commands 

git clone https://github.com/uw-midsun/hardware.git && cd hardware/

This should create a local copy of the repository in your folder. Now you can read through the Hardware Standards page below and learn more about Altium through the guide. Additional information about how to solder and reflow is available via the links below. 

• Hardware Team Resource Hub
• Hardware 101
  • Hardware Tutorial Powerpoints
• Rules & Guidelines
• Using Altium Designer
  • Gerber Creation
  • Basic Concepts
  • Libraries and Component Creation
    • Updating the Schematic and PCBs from Components and Libraries
  • Design Rules
  • Schematic Parameters
• Version Control and Workflow