I ran across an interesting blog post on using KiCad to layout a stripboard design.
Designing professional looking stripboards using Kicad
So far I've been using manual layout methods for my stripboard prototypes. The layout approach using KiCad appears to offer a better way to make an efficient layout.
I decided to rework the sensor board layout using KiCad. As well, I'm splitting apart the schematic into 3 separate schematics, one for each physical module. The new schematic for the Spec Sensor module is here.
As part of this journey I had some stripboard manufactured by JLCPCB, with the stripboard layout done in KiCad. 5 quality stripboard PCBs (10cm x 10cm) can be manufactured for USD $2.00 plus USD $8.09 shipping to Canada.
The results were excellent. I decided that this work was worthy of a separate HD IO project called Stripboard Meets KiCad
Here is the completed sensor module using the JLCPCB stripboard
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