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Jan. 18th, 2011 08:31 pmI did some final, niggling touch-up on the CAD files for the 2011 Duckon blinkie tonight. It's the first board I've ever sent out to have made, and the first board I've designed using CAD - in fact the first time I've used CAD for anything. I was pleasantly surprised at how trivial EagleCAD is to learn, and how pretty much impossible to screw up it makes board layout.
I've been through a bunch of tutorials on EagleCAD and been through design rule checks a dozen times and have everything cleaned up. It's a dirt simple board, but I'm nervous I've screwed something up. But I have a friend from work who's done boards before and he's looked at the Gerber files and assures me that it looks fine, and the prototype that I etched myself works fine.
I sent him a final copy, incorporating the last few nits that he had to pick, and assuming he doesn't come up with any show-stoppers, tomorrow I should be sending the files off to China to have the boards made. With luck there will be show-off boards at Capricon.
I guess I'd better get on eBay and order a whole crapload of LEDs now. And plastic bags to bag up the kits. Then at some point I'm going to have to write assembly instructions, but this is a damned simple blinkie so that should be easy enough.
I've been through a bunch of tutorials on EagleCAD and been through design rule checks a dozen times and have everything cleaned up. It's a dirt simple board, but I'm nervous I've screwed something up. But I have a friend from work who's done boards before and he's looked at the Gerber files and assures me that it looks fine, and the prototype that I etched myself works fine.
I sent him a final copy, incorporating the last few nits that he had to pick, and assuming he doesn't come up with any show-stoppers, tomorrow I should be sending the files off to China to have the boards made. With luck there will be show-off boards at Capricon.
I guess I'd better get on eBay and order a whole crapload of LEDs now. And plastic bags to bag up the kits. Then at some point I'm going to have to write assembly instructions, but this is a damned simple blinkie so that should be easy enough.
