[TriEmbed] Lowest learning curve to design a board?

[Scott Hall]

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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. :)
>>>
>>> Funny thing this .... Elektor Magazine in their July/August issue had an
article "Rotary Dial Phone Remote Control", and they have also had a
sequenced-switch MP3 output device that used an old toy piano keyboard to
play audio fragments.

Anyway, I too am a CAD type of person, KiCAD being my first choice to
create files.  Previously I used Eagle and Fusion360.  Here is an article
that gives a rundown of free CAD software:
https://www.electroschematics.com/pcb-design-software/, and another
article: https://www.3dsourced.com/3d-software/best-pcb-design-software/

In the picture you provided I saw a breadboard, not a perfboard (see
picture).
[image: image.png]
Other prototyping products include veroboards (aka stripboards, see second
picture).
[image: image.png]

Then there are prototyping boards that have the same layout as a breadboard
(see 3rd & 4th pictures).
[image: image.png][image: image.png]

Here is links to a couple of articles on using prototyping boards:
from MKTPCB (who makes circuit boards): https://www.mktpcb.com/perfboard/
from DigiKey:
https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/blogs/2022/start-building-cleaner-perfboard-projects-using-these-simple-tips


-- 
Scott G. Hall
Raleigh, NC, USA
scottghall1 at gmail.com
*Although kindness is rarely a job, no matter what you do it's always an
option.*
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