Sorry, Eagle is a Printed circuit design software. See cadsoftusa.com. You can draw your circuit schematic and then create a PCB board layout. The software will then produce the necessary files to send to a board house to create the actual board. Within Eagle there is a very extensive library of all kinds of electrical parts and you can even create your own part schematic and pad layout, which I've had to do with most of the Dallas One-Wire devices. It has a somewhat steep learning curve but the effort is worthwhile and the results are fantastic. I use Eagle on Linux but I think it is available for most operating systems. It is one great product, and there is a free version for expirmenters. One thing I didn't mention which I also use are adapter boards which have the pad for mounting one SMD device and provide connection layout suitable for bread-boarding. Sparkfun.com has a lot of these for cheap. This lets you build/expirment with a few SMD devices without creating a circuit board. I solder the device to these adapters as described previously. I didn't mean to highjack this thread, but SMD soldering is very challenging for all of us. It is why the wonderful build of the K2 has become the solderless assembly of the K3. Electronics has moved on and SMD is how every modern system is/will be built. It will only get worse with new generation stuff like ball-grid arrays and other high-density packaging. Just imagine the size of a K3 with thru-hole devices, not that many of the parts are even available in thru-hole format.
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