[Emc-users] OT: PCB design help.

2013-07-01 Thread Sven Wesley
Guys, I know a Finnish guy (who else...) called Juho who managed to replace the engine ECU for a Volkswagen TDI engine with an Arduino board. He's even running a car with the Arduino successfully. This would be a great tool for everyone who converts old cars to better and stronger engines, such

Re: [Emc-users] OT: PCB design help.

2013-07-01 Thread andy pugh
On 1 July 2013 12:19, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com 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? He appears to be using a Mac, so probably needs to choose between

Re: [Emc-users] OT: PCB design help.

2013-07-01 Thread Erik Christiansen
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

Re: [Emc-users] OT: PCB design help.

2013-07-01 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 7:43 AM, andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 July 2013 12:19, Sven Wesley svenne.d...@gmail.com 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

Re: [Emc-users] OT: PCB design help.

2013-07-01 Thread Marius Liebenberg
If he is not in a great hurry, I will be happy to help him. I use Design spark. I have done a lot of work on ECU's. On 2013/07/01 01:19 PM, Sven Wesley wrote: Guys, I know a Finnish guy (who else...) called Juho who managed to replace the engine ECU for a Volkswagen TDI engine with an

Re: [Emc-users] OT: PCB design help.

2013-07-01 Thread Karl Schmidt
Having been down that road and having designed close to 100 PCBs in my life -- Eagle and gEDA will drain psychic energy ( As in what Don Lancasters calls a 'phychic Energy sink') - I've used both (I still have nightmares) . You should use kicad even if it means setting up a Debian box to

Re: [Emc-users] OT: PCB design help.

2013-07-01 Thread andy pugh
On 1 July 2013 22:51, Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com wrote: You should use kicad even if it means setting up a Debian box to run it on. But the web page says It is not permissible to be read by anyone who has ever met a lawyer. Use is confined to Engineers with more than 370 course hours of

Re: [Emc-users] OT: PCB design help.

2013-07-01 Thread Sven Wesley
2013/7/2 andy pugh bodge...@gmail.com: On 1 July 2013 22:51, Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com wrote: You should use kicad even if it means setting up a Debian box to run it on. But the web page says It is not permissible to be read by anyone who has ever met a lawyer. Use is confined to

Re: [Emc-users] OT: PCB design help.

2013-07-01 Thread Bruce Layne
On 07/01/2013 05:51 PM, Karl Schmidt wrote: Eagle and gEDA will drain psychic energy ( As in what Don Lancasters calls a 'psychic Energy sink') - I've used both (I still have nightmares). You should use kicad even if it means setting up a Debian box to run it on. I bought the