[TriEmbed] Osh park
Alex
alexd at matrixwide.com
Tue Sep 13 16:54:00 CDT 2016
How about a sharp memory lcd breakout for esp?
https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/acNL1VCz
There's a war on for your mind - www.infowars.com
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> 1. a few notes from last night's meeting & next steps for OSH
> Park boards (Pete Soper)
> 2. Opinion: best schematic drawing software (Scott Hall)
> 3. Re: Opinion: best schematic drawing software (Carl Nobile)
> 4. Re: [Splat Space] Opinion: best schematic drawing software
> (Jeremy Davis)
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> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:52:09 -0400
> From: Pete Soper <pete at soper.us>
> To: Triangle Embedded Computing Discussion <TriEmbed at triembed.org>
> Subject: [TriEmbed] a few notes from last night's meeting & next steps
> for OSH Park boards
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> Mike Lisanke ( mikelisanke at gmail.com <mailto:mikelisanke at gmail.com> )
> volunteered to do the ESP32
> <https://espressif.com/en/products/hardware/esp32/overview> group buy.
> Please correspond directly with Mike.
>
> Alex Davis gave an interesting presentation about his remote creek
> monitor system, including some impressive video of just why he would
> want to keep a virtual eye on it. Many tips and techniques and equipment
> choices covered by his talk will be of use to folks over time. We look
> forward to having Alex' slides in the meeting archive. (I'll convert
> them from ODF to PDF)
>
> One ECPI student attended after an invite by Paul MacDougal at a recent
> talk he gave at ECPI. Thanks to Paul for his outreach.
>
> We should have declared victory after Alex was done. From now on I
> suggest a time limit of 8pm or maybe later if a genuine majority want
> the longer time. I also suggest no formal talks next month, but the
> opportunity for general discussion and the occasional lightning talk if
> the spirit moves somebody for 10 minutes or less.
>
> The one and only concrete proposal for using the $100 coupon given to us
> by Drew Fustini of OSH Park came from Rod Radford by email just before
> the meeting. I described this last night and have repeated Rod's full
> message below. The floor is open for a volunteer to build on last
> night's discussion and define and drive a group project to the next step.
>
> -Pete
> =====================
> Rod's email:
>
> "How about a group exercise where those of you who are seasoned at it
> can walk those of us through the steps with a small board - schematic
> capture, pcb layout, routing, and sending off for prototype?
>
> It would have to be a simple board we could complete within a 1-2 hour
> session, and I have a couple of boards that are simple that I need to
> make for SoutheastCon that would be ideal candidates if you like the
> general idea and just need a board to make.
>
> I have three small boards - each can be sketched out on paper to show
> you, but each is less than 2"x3" in size - for the 3x powered stages of
> the robot arena.
>
> I know that SoutheastCon is an IEEE event and not a TriEmbed, but it
> would be a good opportunity to pass along new skills, and provide help
> to a good STEM activity."
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> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:00:15 -0400
> From: Scott Hall <scottghall1 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [TriEmbed] Opinion: best schematic drawing software
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> I am doing some research, and thought I would fetch opinions on what
> software you feel is best for drawing electronic circuit schematics.
>
> Background: I grew up drawing my schematics by pencil and plastic shape
> templates and standard drafting tools -- even through my college classes in
> Electronics Engineering. Since then, up to this point I have been doing my
> drawing with a application called RFFlow from RFF Electronics
> (https://www.rff.com/) <https://www.rff.com/> that I have followed the
> author back in the 1980's when it was written in Turbo Pascal. He wrote it
> originally to draw ham-radio and RF circuit schematics, and later evolved
> the software to draw flow charts, block diagrams, floor plans, UML design
> diagrams -- much like Microsoft's Visio.
>
> Other schematic software I have explored recently include those discussed
> in this group: KiCad, Eagle and TinyCad. There are a few others I have
> looked at: FlowCode, Fritzing, Scheme-It (at Digikey), CircuitLab, LTSpice
> (not free), SmartDraw (not free), XCircuit.
>
> Some of the features to consider:
>
> 1) schematic drawing;
>
> 2) simulate the circuit using a spice analysis, plotting voltages or
> currents statically or over time;
>
> 3) automatically generate breadboard, stripboard, or perfboard layout for
> prototyping and testing;
>
> 4) automatically route PC board layouts -- usually with the ability to edit
> the result due to criteria not in the component models;
>
> Now I don't need all these features, I am just looking for the drawing
> portion. What do you think?
>
> --
> Scott G. Hall
> Raleigh, NC, USA
> scottghall1 at gmail.com
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> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:25:32 -0400
> From: Carl Nobile <carl.nobile at gmail.com>
> To: Scott Hall <scottghall1 at gmail.com>
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> Scott,
>
> I generally use KiCad or Eagle. LTSpice is not really a schematic drawing
> program though you can kind of do it. It's a Spice simulator for circuits
> and it is free. There is a paid version like Eagle, but most people use the
> free version. I'd stick with either KiCad or Eagle for schematic drawing.
>
> ~Carl
>
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> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Scott Hall via TriEmbed <
> triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
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>> I am doing some research, and thought I would fetch opinions on what
>> software you feel is best for drawing electronic circuit schematics.
>>
>> Background: I grew up drawing my schematics by pencil and plastic shape
>> templates and standard drafting tools -- even through my college classes in
>> Electronics Engineering. Since then, up to this point I have been doing my
>> drawing with a application called RFFlow from RFF Electronics
>> (https://www.rff.com/) <https://www.rff.com/> that I have followed the
>> author back in the 1980's when it was written in Turbo Pascal. He wrote it
>> originally to draw ham-radio and RF circuit schematics, and later evolved
>> the software to draw flow charts, block diagrams, floor plans, UML design
>> diagrams -- much like Microsoft's Visio.
>>
>> Other schematic software I have explored recently include those discussed
>> in this group: KiCad, Eagle and TinyCad. There are a few others I have
>> looked at: FlowCode, Fritzing, Scheme-It (at Digikey), CircuitLab, LTSpice
>> (not free), SmartDraw (not free), XCircuit.
>>
>> Some of the features to consider:
>>
>> 1) schematic drawing;
>>
>> 2) simulate the circuit using a spice analysis, plotting voltages or
>> currents statically or over time;
>>
>> 3) automatically generate breadboard, stripboard, or perfboard layout for
>> prototyping and testing;
>>
>> 4) automatically route PC board layouts -- usually with the ability to
>> edit the result due to criteria not in the component models;
>>
>> Now I don't need all these features, I am just looking for the drawing
>> portion. What do you think?
>>
>> --
>> Scott G. Hall
>> Raleigh, NC, USA
>> scottghall1 at gmail.com
>>
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> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 16:57:52 -0400
> From: Jeremy Davis <jeremyhwllc at gmail.com>
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> Scott,
>
> Since you are used to drawing by hand, my first thought was actually GIMP
> simply because it is solid and has won my respect for many years for image
> editing. You could probably make the shapes you need or copy/import them.
> You could google "shiny buttons gimp images" for examples and turorials on
> how to make some really fancy shapes. You could also load pictures of
> actual breadboards and manipulate them infinitely. the line bending tool is
> a bit tricky to master but very powerful one you do. You can do many
> image layers and you can group the layers or merge them into one. lots of
> zoom power. A main drawback is raster exports instead of SVG and it really
> was not specifically designed for the task you have mentioned.
>
> I am sure you probably saw it already, wikipedia has a nice list:
>
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Electronics/Programs
>
> Looking at Wikipedia list, you could use one of the simple diagram programs
> such as Klunky or Xcircut
> and then import the diagram into GIMP to dress it up for presentation
> with fading color backgrounds etc..
>
>
>
>
>> On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Scott Hall <scottghall1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am doing some research, and thought I would fetch opinions on what
>> software you feel is best for drawing electronic circuit schematics.
>>
>> Background: I grew up drawing my schematics by pencil and plastic shape
>> templates and standard drafting tools -- even through my college classes in
>> Electronics Engineering. Since then, up to this point I have been doing my
>> drawing with a application called RFFlow from RFF Electronics
>> (https://www.rff.com/) <https://www.rff.com/> that I have followed the
>> author back in the 1980's when it was written in Turbo Pascal. He wrote it
>> originally to draw ham-radio and RF circuit schematics, and later evolved
>> the software to draw flow charts, block diagrams, floor plans, UML design
>> diagrams -- much like Microsoft's Visio.
>>
>> Other schematic software I have explored recently include those discussed
>> in this group: KiCad, Eagle and TinyCad. There are a few others I have
>> looked at: FlowCode, Fritzing, Scheme-It (at Digikey), CircuitLab, LTSpice
>> (not free), SmartDraw (not free), XCircuit.
>>
>> Some of the features to consider:
>>
>> 1) schematic drawing;
>>
>> 2) simulate the circuit using a spice analysis, plotting voltages or
>> currents statically or over time;
>>
>> 3) automatically generate breadboard, stripboard, or perfboard layout for
>> prototyping and testing;
>>
>> 4) automatically route PC board layouts -- usually with the ability to
>> edit the result due to criteria not in the component models;
>>
>> Now I don't need all these features, I am just looking for the drawing
>> portion. What do you think?
>>
>> --
>> Scott G. Hall
>> Raleigh, NC, USA
>> scottghall1 at gmail.com
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