[TriEmbed] TriEmbed Digest, Vol 8, Issue 11

Wed Jan 15 22:14:45 CST 2014

John, 

Seems like a wasted opportunity for OshPark to sell more boards.

I was looking for search functionality as well.  I came up with the following:
	1) I used the Google site:  command - “attiny site:oshpark.com”
	2) The OshPark store has search but it does not look like it is well maintained - http://store.oshpark.com
	3) The OshPark blog is a good curated list of the best projects by week - http://blog.oshpark.com

When you find a cool project, you can save it to your OshPark profile page for future reference as I have started to do but you do not get a profile URL to share it.

Hope this helps,

Chip

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> From: Pete Soper <pete at soper.us>
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> Thanks for that, Jon. I was way too harsh about Fritzing and should not 
> have said what I said because my judgment of this tool is several months 
> old. But when I tried it then I somehow failed to notice the caveat that 
> surely lurked in the fine print for that version of Fritzing:
> 
>    "We apologize in advance for what you're about to experience as you 
> try to accomplish much of anything with this 'tool'!"
> 
> But that was then, and this is now. Brian's situation, as he explained 
> toward the end of the meeting, is that he has a well understood, 
> debugged breadboard design that he wants to turn into 16 completed 
> devices via custom PCBs. Fritzing may be the best choice if the cost and 
> shipping logistics aren't a problem. From a learning curve standpoint 
> Fritzing would be hugely better. On the other hand, it might make for a 
> fun project to see if we can turn his schematic into an Eagle board file 
> and have him send it to Oshpark. Brian doesn't actually want to spend a 
> lot of time with CAD programs, whereas I figure some of the rest of us 
> might be eager to learn how to use and not use this program.
> 
> As far as the CAD parts library situation goes, that could be a subject 
> all it's own at another meeting. I had to make a CAD description for 
> both the M41T62LC6F clock chip and the FXOS8700CQ 
> accelerometer/magnetometer chip mentioned last night. (I said the clock 
> chip was a M41T62Q, but that's the version in the QFN-16 package that 
> works with an outboard crystal. The LC6F part is the truely small, metal 
> package with internal crystal.)
> 
> -Pete
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> PS Bill Farrow: if you're reading this, the reason I haven't given you a 
> completed FX board is because I've only been able to complete one so 
> far. I'm finding the solder paste step with a stencil more difficult 
> than it has any right to be.
> 
> On 1/13/2014 11:52 PM, Jon Wolfe wrote:
>> Thanks, Pete, for the fascinating talk!
>> 
>> Fritzing was brought up this evening. I'll agree, I wouldn't want to 
>> use it for PCB layout. I do have a use for it, however: to pre-plan 
>> complex breadboard or protoboard/perfboard layouts. I learned the hard 
>> way that while  Fritzing might be rather limited for some things, but 
>> it is a lot more efficient than repeatedly ripping apart a breadboard 
>> circuit because you didn't plan the layout well enough.
>> 
>> Also, on a separate note, you can use Eagle parts libraries in KiCad, 
>> but the process is a little painful (basically you have to run an 
>> exporter/converter script in Eagle).
>> 
>> This page has a little on that, toward the bottom:
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Kicad/FAQ
>> 
>> Thanks again,
>> 
>> Jon
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> While we are on the subject of PCB's, I was looking at the shared projects on OshPark, but failed to see a search feature. Anyone know a good way to search the shared boards and save time on something already designed?
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