Hi Everyone, I'm a new gEDA user and someone who's just learning electronics design and basically everything that comes with it. I started using Eagle (since that's what most people in the Arduino community use), but the limitations of the free/non-profit versions + the cost of moving to a professional license should I ever want to sell my project for a few bucks, made me quickly realized that Eagle wasn't going to work for me.
Anyways, there's been quite a lot said about "new users" like me and so I figured I'd give my .02: As a new user I don't care what direction you go. Light, heavy, whatever. I suspect most gEDA newbies are like me: pretty confused what the differences really mean in practice. You guys discuss back and forth which is "better" which is great, but not only do I have no clue, I don't even have the experience to make an informed decision. Mostly, I'm just hoping to find the parts I'm using. For the rest, I just want some directions of how to make the symbols/footprints/etc of a good enough quality that not only do they work, but that I can share them with the rest of the gEDA community. Mostly, I just want gEDA as a project to say "this is the officially supported and recommended way of doing things, adjust your workflow accordingly." At first I thought creating symbols was hard, and so I asked around and learned it was actually really easy and I can churn them out fast enough where it isn't an issue anymore. Point is, I never thought this would be "easy", but I'm willing to put in the effort if I know which direction I should go. If there is a consistent story about how this is supposed to work, I'm sure people can improve the UI/experience to make it easier, but right now I just feel a bit lost and that makes learning a lot harder then anything else. That and newbies like me aren't very likely to help code- we don't have enough vested in the project to do that and in my case at least, I've got my own projects that I'm supposed to be working on. What newbies like me are more then willing and able to do though is create symbols/footprints etc. Just need to make it clear what you want and make it easy to submit for review/inclusion. Thanks for reading, Aaron -- Aaron Turner http://synfin.net/ Twitter: @synfinatic http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & Windows Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin "carpe diem quam minimum credula postero" _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user