Very well said. Any time there is a "closed" program, file format or whatever, it limits you to that program and often it makes your life harder than easier. The project looks good and fun. Thanks for sharing. Martin
---- andrwpodm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Juan Gonzalez <obij...@...> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I would like to share with you the Skypic board: > > > > http://fotos.iearobotics.com/index.php?album=skypic-2009&image=Skypic-2009-2.jpg > > > > > > It is a rather an old PIC-based board, developed mainly for teaching > > electronics and microprocessor architecture at Universities. It was > > designed in 2003 using Eagle. Now, we have migrated it into Kicad. > > > > It is an open source board. All the schematics, pcb and Gerber files > > are under the GPL licence. You can download this file[1] or directly > > access to the SVN[2] repository. > > > > We have manufactured 25 PCBs at ELATE.SA (in Spain) and everything > > went fine > > > > More information can be found on the web[3], but it is in spanish :-( > > We still have not have time to translate it into English (sorry) > > > > I would like to thank to all the Kicad developers for this wonderful > > electronic tool and specially to Jean-Pierre Charras. Also I would like > > to thank to Renie S.Marquet[4] for all the wonderful 3D models he have > > made. Thank you very much. > > > > The open hardware designs are "more open" when they are developed with > > Kicad. > > > > Best regards, Juan > > > > [1]http://www.iearobotics.com/proyectos/skypic/download/v1.3/skypic-2009.zip > > [2]http://svn.iearobotics.com/Skypic/v1.3-2009/ > > [3]http://www.iearobotics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Skypic > > [4]http://www.reniemarquet.cjb.net/index.html > > > > > > > > -- > > Blog: www.iearobotics.com/blog > > Web: www.iearobotics.com/juan > > I have just looked at your website, and it looks like a wonderfull little > device. I was wondering. Would it be possible to use this card as a control > interface to move a telescope??? ie drive stepper motors???? > > Andy > > > >
