For this week, I decided to make a board for bipolar stepper motor, which is also going to be used for my final project. I found a nice video for beginners that explains how stepper motor works. I also looked into the A4953 PWM Motor Drivers datasheet. A4953 is designed specifically for running motors.

I used Eagle to draw schematics, and the rest of the process was pretty straightforward.

Now to milling.

Now to soldering. I made some scratches on the board while trying to debur it with a ruler, but the overall milled quality was good enough. While soldering, one of my concern was that I did not set an enough size of the pad, but I assumed that it would be fine when running a not-so-robust motors.