On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 23:28 -0700, Ben Jackson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:27:51AM +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: > > > > The lightbulb which lit up in my head in response to that suggestion:... > > > > I've long wanted "rat parts", so I could list a load of footprints for > > PCB to queue up for placement. > > My personal nickname for this idea is 'tetris placement'. You know how > tetris shows you the next piece and then you place it... So there'd be > a window with a vertical column of parts. You'd place the bottommost one > and they'd all slide down. It would choose the order using algorithms > like I envisioned for 'smart disperse' -- it'd give you an LED and then > its resistor, for example. You'd be able to defer the current part or > just resort the list around a new starting point.
That sounds cool. If we make it too much like a game of tetris, we might just have to introduce a timer, and some system of scoring ;). Will just have to avoid all the placed components disappearing if you line them up in a row ;) -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user