I would love to teach people how to use KiCAD sometime, perhaps on a
tuesday night at sudoroom.
in the meantime, anyone who is interested in using it should go ahead and
install it, using one of the methods i described in my previous message.
-jake
On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Lesley Bell wrote:
Oh no! If something makes EAGLE look easy, it must be horrible! :p
I actually don't think they're that different. KiCAD might be slightly more
confusing and buggy than EAGLE, but not by much. I just haven't done quite as
much with it.
Actually, a group KiCAD workshop might be a cool thing to have at a Sudo hardware night.
On Jul 4, 2015 2:57 PM, "Jake" <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
Eagle is closed-source payware. They let you design small boards for free, but if
your design grows outside of the part count or space
limit, you have to pay to make larger designs. It is a capitalistic enterprise.
KiCAD is a FOSS project written by people who do it for the love, and did i mention
that all the source code (and software) is free?
I know that a lot of people are into EAGLE because it's "easy" and
popular, but I think we should support Free & Libre software when we
can... and we can, because KiCAD totally works.
I made these boards with KiCAD recently:
http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/2015-6/IMG_20150610_193136.jpg
On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Lesley Bell wrote:
I attended an Eagle workshop last year and created a few board designs. Not
sure how much I remember but I wouldn't mind playing
with it again.
On Jul 4, 2015 12:57 PM, "Cere Mona Davis"
<ceremona(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi.
I'm trying to write up an EAGLE board layout and failing miserably.
I'm using the freeware EAGLE suite for the mac. Dunno if
that's making my life harder
than usual or not, but does anyone have recommendations for good EAGLE tools
and/or willing to help me figure out how to work
this thing?
-Cere
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