🇦🇺 Simple KiCad For Simple Vintage Computer Hobbyists: Part 10 (Leningrad-2 to Spectrum) [TCE

Описание: Thanks to #PCBWay for their ongoing support! https://www.pcbway.com
Let's see if we can design a converter board so we can (try to) connect Sinclair ZX Spectrum peripherals to a Soviet-era Ленинград-2 Spectrum clone that has a 2x32 expansion bus with 2.5mm pin pitch.

Apologies for the length - please check the chapter marks below if you you want to skip sections.

The KiCad project can be found on my Github:
https://github.com/0ddjob/ZX_Spectrum...

Repository with ZX Spectrum edge connector (and lots of other goodies):
https://github.com/alvaroalea/8bits_k...

Disclaimer: I'm not a KiCad super-user, I'm not a circuit design guru, I'm just a simple vintage computer hobbyist who needs simple PCBs from time to time. And yes, this sort of thing has probably been designed a dozen times before, but there's no harm in trying to learn how it's done is there?

I'm using KiCad 9.0.5 on a 2022 MacBook Air (M2 with 24GB RAM) running macOS 15.6.1.

0:00:15 ... The issue to be solved
0:06:10 ... Starting the KiCad project
0:10:00 ... Creating a symbol for the Leningrad-2 expansion port
0:13:10 ... KiCad Symbol Design Tunes
0:16:00 ... Creating a footprint
0:19:15 ... Modifying 2.54mm pin pitch to 2.5mm
0:22:55 ... Linking symbol & footprint
0:23:40 ... Renumbering the footprint pins
0:25:05 ... Testing out the design
0:26:40 ... Problems installing a symbol & footprint for the Spectrum edge connector
0:29:50 ... Fixed the problem
0:30:40 ... Installing the Spectrum edge connector symbol & footprint
0:32:30 ... Adding to the schematic
0:34:25 ... Connecting the busses
0:36:20 ... KiCad Footprint Design Tunes
0:37:00 ... PCB design starts
0:47:00 ... KiCad PCB Design Tunes
0:53:45 ... PCB routing completed
0:56:25 ... PCB design completed!
0:58:00 ... Generating fabrication files (Gerbers) for PCBway
1:01:45 ... Test fit of design
1:03:05 ... Channel thanks & outro

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