gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-02-10 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
Is the gEDA project going to try and participate in the Google Summer of of Code for 2011 [1]? The time for organizations to sign up starts on February 28th. Robert 1. http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/program/home/google/gsoc2011 ___ geda-user ma

Re: gEDA-user: 27th Chaos Communication Congress (27C3)

2010-12-25 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
My workshop got the go ahead, it's on Monday evening. I'm collecting some details on the wiki page [1]. > Would your workshop be a good place to meet existing gEDA users? The workshop might be a bit low level for exiting gEDA users, but a meet up after might be good. Also I plan on hanging out

gEDA-user: 27th Chaos Communication Congress (27C3)

2010-12-14 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
Anybody going to 27C3 in Berlin during the 27th-30th of December? I'd like to spend some of my spare time at the conference working on or promoting gEDA. I've signed up to give a two hour workshop/tutorial on gschem/pcb, so hopefully that will be accepted. If there were a couple of us going mayb

gEDA-user: Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-01 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
So are any gEDA projects/people going to try and participate in GSoC 2010? Mentoring organizations applications begin on March 8th and end on March 12th. I've some student friends and one or two of them might be interested in working on gEDA related projects for this years GSoC. Robert __

Re: gEDA-user: Netlist error

2009-08-10 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
ue) but nothing else. I'm using Debian Lenny distribution. > > I'm not sure what information is needed to make sense of this. So please > ask. > > Gary Roach > >From e4e79e71eb7cf8fa7c2f8d796a92bba37292e294 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Fitzsimons Date: M

Re: gEDA-user: Texas Instruments TPS series

2009-07-31 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
Hi David > Take a look at some of the new TI symbols I uploaded. I just had a quick look and I notice you manualy drew the overlines on some pins. Can I suggest you try using the overline feature of gschem instead, for example (pinlable=\_RESET\_). It's covered in the faq at: http://geda.seul.o

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Bug: poly clearance around rotated pads.

2008-09-08 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
> > Here's an updated version of my patch which fixes the square pad and > > damaged polygon issues. > > Actually it does not fixes "damaged polygons" very well. Did you apply the patch correctly? You piece of code doesn't seem to show my latest changes. Robert _

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Bug: poly clearance around rotated pads.

2008-09-06 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
> Do you two want some more time to play with this, or should I commit > now and worry later? Here's an updated version of my patch which fixes the square pad and damaged polygon issues. Robert Index: src/polygon.c === RCS file: /

Re: gEDA-user: PCB Bug: poly clearance around rotated pads.

2008-09-04 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
Is this the same issue that I was trying to fix with this patch? http://archives.seul.org/geda/dev/May-2008/msg00085.html Robert On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:33:21PM +0400, Ineiev wrote: > Hello, Dave; > On 9/2/08, Dave N6NZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Clearance on rounded pads is much prettier

Re: gEDA-user: poll: How do you geda?

2008-06-04 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
> * What OS do you run geda applications on? Debian/testing, with some limited testing of the Windows builds with computers at work. > * How did you install your copy of geda apps? Usually I build from git or cvs, but have used .deb's in the past. > * Which apps do you use. What is your typic

Re: gEDA-user: Success

2008-05-25 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
> Wow... And what processor are you using? >From the photo it's an Analog Devices ADUC7026. http://www.analog.com/en/prod/0,,762_0_ADUC7026%2C00.html Robert ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/list

Re: gEDA-user: RFC: Footprint Builder

2008-03-06 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
> The program requires a minimum of Java version 6, for some just clicking > on the first link [1] will work, but if that doesn't work try > downloading the second jar file [2] and run it using 'java -jar > footprintbuilder.jar'. For those of you that don't have java, here is a screenshot [1] show

Re: gEDA-user: RFC: Footprint Builder

2008-03-06 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
> I presume you have looked at the interactive footprint scripts by DJ at > gedasymbols.org for twopads and dils. I know I should have looked harder for an existing script. But I'm hoping my program can be used to generate (or at least help generate) some complex footprints, for example S.O. D

gEDA-user: RFC: Footprint Builder

2008-03-05 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
I've been working on a design for a software define radio and some of the components I'm planning on using don't have existing footprints. So while thinking about the steps needed to create the slightly different footprints I needed, I decided to try knocking up a interactive program which could b

Re: gEDA-user: PCB needs alternate grid

2007-10-26 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
> The crosshair snaps to a grid point or pin center whichever is closer, but > it will snap to a > grid point or the nearest "defining endpoint" of a pad. It will not snap to > a *pad* center. (I wish it still did :( .) Here's a patch I made a few months ago to snap the crosshair to the centre o

Re: gEDA-user: alarm clock update

2007-09-13 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
> What I'm contemplating is switching to photoresist. You print the > pattern on transparencies, photoexpose, develop, and etch. No > laminating, soaking, etc. The advantage is that it's easy to line up > transparencies because you can see through them, so doing double sided > PCBs (or in this c

Re: gEDA-user: Looking for a project

2007-03-31 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
> Does anyone have some good ideas for me? I'm a hardware guy with lots > of experience in building radios and audio systems (RF and audio). A few months ago I joined a project to develop a GSM Scanner [1], at the moment we are using a USRP [2] and GnuRadio [3] software to capture and process the

Re: gEDA-user: Design changs required to mill PCBs?

2006-10-04 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
code wrote to work with my plotter last year. It is able to convert a DXF file to HPGL format. Hope it helps. Robert /* * Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Robert Fitzsimons * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Lice