On 01.07.13 13:19, Sven Wesley wrote: > He needs help to design a PCB, he's running everything on a > proto-board at the moment. Could someone with the knowledge and > programs for PCB design give him a hand? > > His project is documented here: > http://dmn.kuulalaakeri.org/dmn-edc/
His block diagram shows that there are a few analog chips and fets, plus an arduino mega. If he only needs a PCB shield made up, can he tell us whether the arduino mega he's using takes the standard shield, or there's a different one for mega? (There are Eagle macros for a number of shields, so some work is already done.) Eagle is free for non-commercial use, but the free version won't do anything much bigger than an arduino shield. > I'm more than happy to make the boards, but I'm not a PCB designer at all... It is cheap to have a board or two made up in Malaysia, and you can email them the Eagle PCB file if you're not familiar with generating the CAM files. A quick look at my installed Eagle libraries didn't show an LM1815 macro, and nor was there one at: http://www.cadsoftusa.com/downloads/libraries?language=en It would be necessary to spend a few minutes making one. But then, gEda probably is in the same boat. I've just downloaded an LM1815 datasheet, and it wouldn't take much to bang together a component macro for him, if he does decide to go with Eagle. Which package is he using, SMD or DIP? (SMD is easy to solder, especially at the wide (1.27mm) pin spacing of SOIC. A cheap wave-soldering tip on your iron makes it quicker than soldering DIP devices, and the absence of through-holes makes for a more complete groundplane, which gives a nice low impedance ground - an asset for clean signals.) Or does he want to sell the boards? Then: http://www.cadsoftusa.com/shop/pricing/?language=en shows that EAGLE Standard: Layout+Schematic is several hundred dollars for a quite limited PCB size. (But I wouldn't be keen to pay for EAGLE Professional, unless I really needed it.) Erik -- Behavioural psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats. - Dr. Douglas Busch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
