Re: gEDA-user: Alternate Platforms

2011-01-27 Thread Matthew Sager
Is this something that would be easy to port to? Anyone know much about developing for table PCs? I have just looked into the android OS just a little because I got a new droid phone. [1]http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html The short version is that

Re: gEDA-user: going multi core

2011-01-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 07:36 +, Peter TB Brett wrote: - Original message - just one such core. Can I expect a spectacular speed-up of gschem and pcb? Or are they throttled by the graphic card anyway? gschem is a single-threaded application. It runs on one core, no matter how

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: directly connecting two nets?

2011-01-27 Thread Gareth Edwards
On 27 January 2011 00:00, Stephen Ecob silicon.on.inspirat...@gmail.com wrote: So there are several use cases for treating copper as non-connecting: * low value resistors * fuses * low value inductors * aerials * contacts for solder switches (eg SPDT in solder) * Transmission lines

gEDA-user: Soldering minute smt

2011-01-27 Thread Rob Butts
Holy miniature footprints Batman!!! I'm trying to solder a 10 pin MSOP chip to a home made circuit board. The pitch of this chip is just 0.5 mm. We tried using the slightests of dabs of solder across the pins and then used a heat gun the melt the solder but now I have a chip

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering minute smt

2011-01-27 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Thursday 27 January 2011 15:47:37 Rob Butts wrote: Holy miniature footprints Batman!!! I'm trying to solder a 10 pin MSOP chip to a home made circuit board. These are incredibly difficult to solder without solder mask, in my experience. Whenever I've had a design that called for them,

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering minute smt

2011-01-27 Thread Peter Clifton
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 10:47 -0500, Rob Butts wrote: Holy miniature footprints Batman!!! I'm trying to solder a 10 pin MSOP chip to a home made circuit board. The pitch of this chip is just 0.5 mm. We tried using the slightests of dabs of solder across the pins and then used a

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering minute smt

2011-01-27 Thread Felipe De la Puente Christen
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 15:53 +, Peter TB Brett wrote: On Thursday 27 January 2011 15:47:37 Rob Butts wrote: Holy miniature footprints Batman!!! I'm trying to solder a 10 pin MSOP chip to a home made circuit board. These are incredibly difficult to solder without solder mask, in my

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering minute smt

2011-01-27 Thread Eric Brombaugh
On 01/27/2011 08:47 AM, Rob Butts wrote: I'm trying to solder a 10 pin MSOP chip to a home made circuit board. The pitch of this chip is just 0.5 mm. We tried using the slightests of dabs of solder across the pins and then used a heat gun the melt the solder but now I have a

Re: gEDA-user: Do sub sheet symbol pins need pinseq?

2011-01-27 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: Are pinseq attributes really required for anything I could possibly do with sub sheet symbols? I think, only pinlabel is required for those.. to correspond to the refdes= of the IO pin in the hierarchy sub-sheet. No numbers required at all? That would be good news.

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering minute smt

2011-01-27 Thread Joe Chisolm - Gmail
On 01/27/2011 09:47 AM, Rob Butts wrote: Holy miniature footprints Batman!!! I'm trying to solder a 10 pin MSOP chip to a home made circuit board. The pitch of this chip is just 0.5 mm. We tried using the slightests of dabs of solder across the pins and then used a heat gun

Re: gEDA-user: Windows gEDA port

2011-01-27 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Terrance Hutchinson wrote: I am perusing the code and setting up my server to run Fedora 14 so I will be contributing soon. I plan on providing as much help as I can. If this results in an installable package that could be placed on a server, this would be a great step ahead.

Re: gEDA-user: Visual cue of zero length pin endpoint

2011-01-27 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: (Only exceptions being things which don't render to print, such as selection colours or grab handles). I'd say, pin cues fall into the same category. calculate the mean density of markers and dynamically adjust the size to some useful value? Sounds like a whole

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering minute smt

2011-01-27 Thread DJ Delorie
I've done 0.5mm pitch TQFP on home-fabbed PCBs with an iron. Heck, I've done 0.4mm pitch too. It's easy if you know how. Here's how. You'll need: pen flux solder wire iron with normal-sized chisel or hoof tip (I use chisel) Procedure: Pen flux the pads on the PCB and the pins on the QFP

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering minute smt

2011-01-27 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
DJ Delorie wrote: Put a small blob of solder on your iron and just run it down one of the un-tacked rows of pins. This will solder all the pins and probably short a few. Add more solder to the iron as needed, but you don't want to add it all at once. Works for more coarse pitch, too.

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering minute smt

2011-01-27 Thread DJ Delorie
Works for more coarse pitch, too. There's a classic on youtube: I think the only trick is to make sure your iron's tip is BIG enough to span three or more pins, so it glides along the top instead of hitting individual pins. ___ geda-user mailing

Re: gEDA-user: Alternate Platforms

2011-01-27 Thread Dietmar Schmunkamp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 27.01.2011 06:13, schrieb Dave McGuire: On 1/26/11 11:59 PM, rickman wrote: BTW, is Android multitasking or is it single tasking like the iPad OS? Android is layered atop Linux. The iPad OS (also the iPhone OS, called iOS) is

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering minute smt

2011-01-27 Thread Stephen Ecob
Flux is the secret... Applying flux is the crucial step to success. +1 Get yourself some good quality flux, it makes this sort of problem disappear. I've used Electrolube SMFL (aerosol with dispenser tube) with good results, but there are many good options. Look for something with surface mount

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering minute smt

2011-01-27 Thread Steven Michalske
I can't say enough about using flux for soldering. I often use the no clean flux with a metal tip dispenser. like mouser 577-SF-01 Although it seems that if you don't want to buy a gallon of liquid flux your getting a pen, which I dislike over the dispenser. It is a matter of taste. The other

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering minute smt To:

2011-01-27 Thread william estrada
I found this yesterday: [1]http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/59 Hope it helps? Message: 9 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:47:37 -0500 From: Rob Butts [2]r.but...@gmail.com Subject: gEDA-user: Soldering minute smt To: gEDA user mailing list [3]geda-user@moria.seul.org Message-ID:

Re: gEDA-user: Soldering minute smt

2011-01-27 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
DJ Delorie wrote: I think the only trick is to make sure your iron's tip is BIG enough to span three or more pins, so it glides along the top instead of hitting individual pins. IMHO, it works better, if the tip features flat surfaces. The solder happily flocks to a blob on the flat surface

Re: gEDA-user: howto detect missing symbols

2011-01-27 Thread John Doty
On Jan 28, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Hi. Is there a command line way to detect missing symbols in schematics files? gnetlist -g geda whatever.sch | grep WARNING: Found a placeholder/missing component, I'd like to check all my schematics for consistency with my current