gEDA-user: gEDA and PCB at DVClub UK - thanks, Chitlesh

2010-09-20 Thread Gareth Edwards
I'm sitting listening to the UK DVClub meeting and Chitlesh Goorah is doing an excellent job of talking about Free Electronics Lab, including gEDA and PCB. Well done, Chitlesh and thanks for helping to promote FOSS to the professional community. Cheers Gareth

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA and PCB at DVClub UK - thanks, Chitlesh

2010-09-20 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 13:27 +0100, Gareth Edwards wrote: I'm sitting listening to the UK DVClub meeting and Chitlesh Goorah is doing an excellent job of talking about Free Electronics Lab, including gEDA and PCB. Well done, Chitlesh and thanks for helping to promote FOSS to the professional

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA and PCB at DVClub UK - thanks, Chitlesh

2010-09-20 Thread Gareth Edwards
On 20 September 2010 15:57, Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Cambridge or Bristol? Had I known (and it was Cambridge), I'd have come along! It was technically under the auspices of the Bristol club, but ARM hosted a presence in Cambridge. I would have trailed to the list if I'd spotted

Re: gEDA-user: very backward time step?

2010-09-20 Thread al davis
On Friday 17 September 2010, Chris Cole wrote: I'm trying to do a very simple power supply simulation with gschem and I'm not getting very far. I'm trying to do a bridge rectification of a 24 VAC supply to DC current. I'm able to do a transient analysis for 10 iterations before I get:

Re: gEDA-user: very backward time step?

2010-09-20 Thread John Doty
On Sep 20, 2010, at 11:48 AM, al davis wrote: As usual, John Doty is wrong. Gee, I try to help the guy, and insert what I think is a reasonable disclaimer ( this is a gnucap question, not a gschem question. But if the tran command in gnucap is like the SPICE tran command, ...), show him an

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-20 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Steven Michalske wrote: We had that: M4 footprints. I never liked those, I could not figure out how to use them. But I love them! I love them too! I don't ;-) I keep mine up to date, so I don't use a - (dash) in foot print names, its a price I am willing to pay. It is a price

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-20 Thread DJ Delorie
Has anyone looked into what it would take to properly quote footprint names, so that hyphens *can* be used in them without m4 issues? I mean, we don't have to support *m4* footprints with hyphens, but at least get past that to find newlib names? ___

Re: gEDA-user: A lightning talking on gEDA at SFD 2010 Shenzhen

2010-09-20 Thread John Griessen
On 09/19/2010 06:22 AM, Atommann wrote: Hi all, I give a lightning talking about gEDA at the Software Freedom Day 2010 Shenzhen yesterday afternoon, introduced gEDA project, the gEDA community and the tools gEDA provided and I also introduced some open source hardware project from Lady Ada, DJ

Re: gEDA-user: A lightning talking on gEDA at SFD 2010 Shenzhen

2010-09-20 Thread Atommann
2010/9/21 John Griessen j...@ecosensory.com: What did they think? This is the question: I give the talk at the end of the meeting and there is no time for the QA section, I did not get feedbacks. But I found that some people are interested in open hardware. Do many in Shenzen use linux?