I did an ac to dc voltage reg pcb using Fritzing and it was okay.
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 27, 2023, at 5:11 PM, Dawn Trembath via TriEmbed <triembed@triembed.org> wrote:
I strongly support what Paul said in recommending Fritzing. I was completely snowed under by everything else I tried the first couple of times. Once I had designed a couple of boards and obtained them using Fritzing, i went back to kicad and was able to make sense of it. I use kicad now, but I never would have gotten there without Fritzing.
Rob. I started with Eagle. Quickly got frustrated and tried Fritzing, which did the job for the board I needed. On seeing that OSHPark accepts Eagle board files, I went back to Eagle. They now accept Eagle, KiCad, or gerbers. I watched some YouTube tutorials on Eagle and that helped immensely. I am still using a free version of Eagle, but it seems that they are wanting people to pay for even the basics. If you have not learned a CAD program yet, I would recommend KiCad (I have never used it) because it is open source and supported. If you want help with Eagle, I would be happy to work with you. ---> Paul From: TriEmbed <triembed-boun...@triembed.org> On Behalf Of jonathan hunsberger via TriEmbed
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2023 3:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] Lowest learning curve to design a board? (trying to make this fit in the triembed 250k limit..) Thanks for all the info. I'm playing around with EasyEDA at the moment and will see where i can get. I did hack this together with pre-perforated circuit board in a lock-n-lock (see pic). Now i'd like to make it more compact and repeatable and maybe make a 3d-printed shell for it. This is for a project where you can dial numbers on a rotary phone and play audio samples. There is one in the Cocoa Cinnamon on Hillsborough Rd in Durham, but for that one i took the insides out and wired everything directly to the receiver/dial. The newer version (pictured and which i'm trying to make a board for) uses a SLIC board so an unmodified phone can plug into it. I'm sure i will get it wrong a few times before i get it right. :)
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