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I'm currently designing my first pcb to have printed. The footprint for a breadboard with, 2 128+ pin qfp microcontrollers and all the components and associated breakout boards, arduino board and components, and shields to drive the leds and tft lcd was too big for my liking so I'm taking the schematics from each and starting from scratch. My bill of materials so far is pretty extensive for such a seemingly small project. A lot of smt components to all fit inside will make for a fun soldering job :/
Thankfully re-doing something like this on a much smaller chip with the rest of the project won't be too difficult as I'm not needing touch or sd card capabilities
Basically I'm creating this:
which is found in this:
- are you using eagle? and can you recommend some good PCB producer for small runs?GeorgesII
- I'm playing with eagle, kicad, and design spark to see which is most intuitive. so far none stand out.SteveJobs
- On the fab side I'm still a ways off from this stage and need to see what is available but will probably go with OSH Park as they're US-based.SteveJobs
- They take several orders from diff customers and have giant boards printed to minimize costs. Not sure if anyone else does this but brilliant idea.SteveJobs
- I think I'll give them a shot, they are tons of cool board designs I've been wanting to tryGeorgesII
- I use eagle because there's an extensive set of libraries for it. For PCB go with OSH, they're inexpensive and good quality.dorf