[TriEmbed] Lowest learning curve to design a board?
The MacDougals
paulmacdnc at att.net
Wed Dec 27 15:44:58 CST 2023
I started with Eagle. Quickly got frustrated and tried Fritzing, which did the job for the board I needed. On seeing that OSHPark accepts Eagle board files, I went back to Eagle.
They now accept Eagle, KiCad, or gerbers. I watched some YouTube tutorials on Eagle and that helped immensely.
I am still using a free version of Eagle, but it seems that they are wanting people to pay for even the basics.
If you have not learned a CAD program yet, I would recommend KiCad (I have never used it) because it is open source and supported.
If you want help with Eagle, I would be happy to work with you.
---> Paul
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On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 3:45 PM jonathan hunsberger <1101010 at gmail.com <mailto:1101010 at gmail.com> > wrote:
Thanks for all the info. I'm playing around with EasyEDA at the moment and will see where i can get. I did hack this together with pre-perforated circuit board in a lock-n-lock (see pic). Now i'd like to make it more compact and repeatable and maybe make a 3d-printed shell for it. This is for a project <https://github.com/jrhunger/dialamemory> where you can dial numbers on a rotary phone and play audio samples. There is one in the Cocoa Cinnamon on Hillsborough Rd in Durham, but for that one i took the insides out and wired everything directly to the receiver/dial. The newer version (pictured and which i'm trying to make a board for) uses a SLIC board so an unmodified phone can plug into it. I'm sure i will get it wrong a few times before i get it right. :)
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