Have to say, learning Eagle CAD is a lot of fun. Especially when you have the freedom to modify everything to your liking. Shoutout to @Griffin_Paquette for the help!
Hmm those components look mighty familiar;-)
The Stealthboard has honestly proven to be such a great starting point for me to develop from. Can’t wait to get more out there very soon!
Curious to see it with all of the components placed and traces routed
Check out the seamless integration with Fusion360 as well! It’s not perfect yet (not all components are modeled), but the auto generation of a 3d model of the pcb inserted right into Fusion makes it really simple to design enclosures and other components around it and check fit on the fly. It helped me when I was designing a Nodemcu carrier board and enclosures for my multi-sensor and LED strip controller projects.
@Matt_Harrington it’s a pull from my Stealthboard design so a good bit of the components will need some changing to work properly/fit here but I’m quite excited to see it myself!
@BK_Hobby I also tried this the other day. Worked very well. I hope we can keep that feature
Yep, the board was pulled and is sync’d with fusion.
@BK_Hobby is right on. The Eagle and Fusion integration is cool. I designed a product a few months back. Several boards and was able to bring them into Fusion 360 and design the case. Only had to do a couple tweaks to the prototype to make it production ready.
Check out KiCad for a FOSS alternative to Eagle. The project has been gaining a lot of momentum in recent years and there are some great tutorials on youtube to get you started. It readily exports STEP files for use in your preferred 3D solid modeling software. (and for that I would check out FreeCAD if you have any misgivings about your work being locked up in a “cloud” product where the pricing, terms, and conditions can change at any time).
I have been using http://EasyEDA.com online (all web based) and like it for quick projects. Integrated PCB ordering and assembly are a plus. I never cared for Eagle but now that Autodesk owns them who knows.
@James_Armstrong Thanks for sharing! Looks interesting.
Eagle CAD was bloated up with 60MB the day Autodesk took over, got much slower and stopped working offline.
It’s dead to me now. EasyEDA is the future, open source and all.
@Andre_Kjellstrup EasyEDA does not appear to be open source. Where are you seeing that?
@Aaron_Grogan sorry, I referred to what they call open source hardware, the fact all can contribute with new modules. Also, they state in their FAQ that in case they cannot sustain, they will open source all. And they are working on native apps for offline use too…
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