How Printed Circuit Boards Work

Video Transcript

" Hello! This is Ross on behalf of expertvillage.com. Let us talk about circuit boards. After you design a circuit on your breadboard. You may decide you want put in circuit board otherwise no one has a PCB. On one side of the PCB are the traces this is called the solder’s side. On the other side, that is where you mount the components. The components are stuck into the board here, the leads come through to the other side where you solder them. This is a component side and this is the solder side. You can make your own PCB also when you are reading magazine articles one a lot of times that will include a PCB layout and you can make it yourself at home. There are kids to make your own printed circuit boards or you could order from the company that is doing the article, lot of times they will have them made up and you can order a kit with the parts adjust the board and get your own parts. Nice thing about PCBs is they keep the circuit clean and organized and it makes the user to troubleshoot the circuit if you have a problem, something fails you can go ahead and easily get a probe on there from your voltmeter or usual ohmmeter something like that. Making an imprinted circuit board is a great way to finish up a project so you might want actually prototype it first on a breadboard, make sure it works, do the layout. You can either do the layout by hand, if it is more complex use computer software layout and then what you do is create your board from there."