[TriEmbed] Drone delivery by UPS here first

2019-03-26 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
WakeMed in Raleigh is the spot as UPS makes its first deliveries with drones in the U.S.https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article228373214.html___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: TriEmbed@triembed.org List info: http:

Re: [TriEmbed] TriEmbed Digest, Vol 70, Issue 11

2019-03-26 Thread Charles J. Lord, PE via TriEmbed
Actually, yes. KiCad project dumped the crappy one from 4.0 and now uses part of another package called Freerouting https://freerouting.org/freerouting/using-with-kicad I use it with my new class on KiCad and it does a decent job on a simple 2-layer board. I attached my latest board - the loop an

Re: [TriEmbed] KiCad and Autorouting

2019-03-26 Thread Brian via TriEmbed
On 3/26/19 2:01 PM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed wrote: Does KiCad  5.0 have a usable autorouter? -Pete Never trust the autorouter! I can't speak for fully-automatic routing, but KiCad 6.0's interactive routing tools (push-and-shove, walk-around) are actually quite impressive and time-saving on

Re: [TriEmbed] Eagle vs KiCad vs...

2019-03-26 Thread Brian via TriEmbed
Chip has made some very good points on the value of commercial software, and I disagree with nothing he's said. I just thought I'd muddy the waters with a bit more info about KiCad on some particular fronts: 1. Workflow I'll be the first to agree that KiCad's workflow isn't necessarily very i

Re: [TriEmbed] TriEmbed Digest, Vol 70, Issue 11

2019-03-26 Thread Pete Soper via TriEmbed
Does KiCad  5.0 have a usable autorouter? -Pete ___ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: TriEmbed@triembed.org List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org

Re: [TriEmbed] TriEmbed Digest, Vol 70, Issue 11

2019-03-26 Thread Charles J. Lord, PE via TriEmbed
nd at > https://www.4pcb.com/free-pcb-layout-software/ > > I've never used it, but it claims to be free and unrestricted, and have > a half-million-part library. > > Cheers, > -Brian > > ___ > Triangle, NC Embedded Computi

Re: [TriEmbed] TriEmbed Digest, Vol 70, Issue 11

2019-03-26 Thread Chip McClelland via TriEmbed
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Re: [TriEmbed] PCB Design Software Question

2019-03-26 Thread John Vaughters via TriEmbed
+1 on KiCAD because if I am going to spend time on something I do not want restrictions. I am not a PCB designer, we always had people that specialized in the that skill, but I was very familiar to the PCB manufacture and assembly. So when I give you my experience on KiCAD, I am not biased, but

Re: [TriEmbed] PCB Design Software Question

2019-03-26 Thread Brian via TriEmbed
On 3/25/19 11:08 PM, Dwight Morgan via TriEmbed wrote: Thanks Carl. I downloaded Eagle and will bear down on learning it. I’ve used AutoCad before so I’m hoping there is a wee bit of familiarity. There should be some good tutorials for it. Dwight Hi Dwight, I strongly encourage you to pick