[TriEmbed] Lowest learning curve to design a board?

[Robert Mackie]

I strongly support what Paul said in recommending Fritzing. I was
completely snowed under by everything else I tried the first couple of
times. Once I had designed a couple of boards and obtained them using
Fritzing, i went back to kicad and was able to make sense of it. I use
kicad now, but I never would have gotten there without Fritzing.

Rob.

On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 4:45 PM The MacDougals via TriEmbed <
triembed at triembed.org> wrote:

> 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.
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> They now accept Eagle, KiCad, or gerbers.  I watched some YouTube
> tutorials on Eagle and that helped immensely.
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> I am still using a free version of Eagle, but it seems that they are
> wanting people to pay for even the basics.
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> 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.
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> If you want help with Eagle, I would be happy to work with you.
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> ---> Paul
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> *From:* TriEmbed <triembed-bounces at triembed.org> *On Behalf Of *jonathan
> hunsberger via TriEmbed
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 27, 2023 3:52 PM
> *To:* Triangle Embedded Devices <TriEmbed at triembed.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [TriEmbed] Lowest learning curve to design a board?
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> (trying to make this fit in the triembed 250k limit..)
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> On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 3:45 PM jonathan hunsberger <1101010 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> 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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