Re: gEDA-user: footprint request: mini-fit 4P

2008-08-24 Thread Levente Kovacs
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:22:26 +0200 (CEST) Igor2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, does anyone have PCB footprint for mini-fit 4P connector? Well... mini-fit 8P. It should be straight forward to generate a 4 pin version. http://logonex.eu/cgi-bin/viewvc/viewvc.cgi/levalib/mini_fit_8.fp?view=log

Re: gEDA-user: gschem 1.4.0 crashing while editing symbol attributes

2008-08-24 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 12:49 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 13:39 +0200, Christoph Lechner wrote: Just found out that it's even easier to crash it. Just place a resistor, delete the contents of the value field in the Edit Attributes window (just as above). Then

Re: gEDA-user: gschem 1.4.0 crashing while editing symbol attributes

2008-08-24 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 16:45 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 12:49 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 13:39 +0200, Christoph Lechner wrote: Just found out that it's even easier to crash it. Just place a resistor, delete the contents of the value

gEDA-user: home-made pcb

2008-08-24 Thread Robert Butts
What gerber files do I have print to make a home-made card? Is there a tutorial somewhere? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: home-made pcb

2008-08-24 Thread DJ Delorie
What gerber files do I have print to make a home-made card? Is there a tutorial somewhere? Depending on how you make them, you either want postscript or PNG exports from PCB. I use postscript for TT because my laser printer knows postscript, and PNG for photofilm because the inkjet gets its

Re: gEDA-user: home-made pcb

2008-08-24 Thread Robert Butts
What type of paper do you print on? Is it necessary to use a laser printer or can I use an inkjet photo-printer? Can I use an iron instead of a laminator? On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 1:50 PM, DJ Delorie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What gerber files do I have print to make a home-made card? Is

Re: gEDA-user: home-made pcb

2008-08-24 Thread phil
What type of paper do you print on? Is it necessary to use a laser printer or can I use an inkjet photo-printer? Can I use an iron instead of a laminator? There are different processes. You need to do a little research and see which one you want to take on. The laser printer toner process

Re: gEDA-user: home-made pcb

2008-08-24 Thread DJ Delorie
What type of paper do you print on? Is it necessary to use a laser printer or can I use an inkjet photo-printer? Can I use an iron instead of a laminator? I use specially coated paper and a laser printer (inkjet won't work, it's the toner itself that's the mask), but you can use certain

gEDA-user: Poor man's O-scope?

2008-08-24 Thread Robert Butts
Does anyone have a good source, other than ebay, for cheap (possibly used or refurbished) oscilloscopes? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Poor man's O-scope?

2008-08-24 Thread Dave McGuire
On Aug 24, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Robert Butts wrote: Does anyone have a good source, other than ebay, for cheap (possibly used or refurbished) oscilloscopes? eBay. ;) Seriously. You can avoid it on some sort of moral grounds or something like that, if you're willing to screw yourself.

gEDA-user: Need opinion on O-scope

2008-08-24 Thread Robert Butts
I found an oscilloscope on ebay that the asuction ends tonight. At the risk of gettting someone else interested in it it's at this link:

Re: gEDA-user: Need opinion on O-scope

2008-08-24 Thread Darrell Harmon
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Robert Butts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found an oscilloscope on ebay that the asuction ends tonight. At the risk of gettting someone else interested in it it's at this link:

Re: gEDA-user: Poor man's O-scope?

2008-08-24 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 17:20 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote: On Aug 24, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Robert Butts wrote: Does anyone have a good source, other than ebay, for cheap (possibly used or refurbished) oscilloscopes? eBay. ;) Seriously. You can avoid it on some sort of moral grounds or

Re: gEDA-user: Poor man's O-scope?

2008-08-24 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:26:30 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote: I would avoid eBay / Paypal like the plague. Too many sharks, and if you get bitten, both of the above companies are _completely_ useless at doing anything constructive about it. My reasoning: I got my test and measurement gadgets from

Re: gEDA-user: Need opinion on O-scope

2008-08-24 Thread Dan McMahill
Darrell Harmon wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Robert Butts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found an oscilloscope on ebay that the asuction ends tonight. At the risk of gettting someone else interested in it it's at this link:

Re: gEDA-user: Poor man's O-scope?

2008-08-24 Thread der Mouse
I would avoid eBay / Paypal like the plague. Same here. Last I heard (it's been a while since I checked, but nothing I've heard indicates they've gotten better) their user agreement was multiple dozens of pages. They also required agreeing to foreign legal jurisdiction. Either of those alone

Re: gEDA-user: Need opinion on O-scope

2008-08-24 Thread Dave McGuire
On Aug 24, 2008, at 8:09 PM, Dan McMahill wrote: I found an oscilloscope on ebay that the asuction ends tonight. At the risk of gettting someone else interested in it it's at this link: http://cgi.ebay.com/Tektronix-7854-400-Mhz-Digital-Analog-

Re: gEDA-user: Poor man's O-scope?

2008-08-24 Thread Dave McGuire
On Aug 24, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: Does anyone have a good source, other than ebay, for cheap (possibly used or refurbished) oscilloscopes? eBay. ;) Seriously. You can avoid it on some sort of moral grounds or something like that, if you're willing to screw yourself.

Re: gEDA-user: Need opinion on O-scope

2008-08-24 Thread Dave McGuire
On Aug 24, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Robert Butts wrote: I found an oscilloscope on ebay that the asuction ends tonight. At the risk of gettting someone else interested in it it's at this link: http://cgi.ebay.com/Tektronix-7854-400-Mhz-Digital-Analog-