On May 16th, 2015 at the Bay Area Maker Faire I did a presentation on designing a Raspberry Pi HAT using KiCAD running on the Raspberry Pi 2.
If you are interested in the slides from the presentation you can see them here.
Presentation page
Meta Pi: Design a Raspberry Pi HAT using KiCAD running on the Raspberry Pi 2
Presentation description
A step-by-step guide to creating a Raspberry Pi HAT using the KiCAD suite of EDA tools running on the Raspberry Pi 2 itself.
The KiCAD project is an open source suite of EDA tools. KiCAD runs on Linux and the new Raspberry Pi 2 now has enough processing power to run KiCAD. KiCAD includes tools for schematic capture, netlist creation, printed circuit board (PCB) layout and a gerber viewer.
This presentation will cover:
- What is a HAT?
- Requirements for a HAT to be called a Raspberry Pi HAT
- Installing KiCAD on the Pi
- Drawing a schematic in KiCAD
- PCB layout in KiCAD
- Creating gerbers files
- Get your HAT PCB built