[sdiy] prototype boarding (help?) and homemade pcbs.

[Ingo Debus]

Am 13.05.2006 um 12:01 schrieb Cole Groff:

> also, i've been thinking of making my own pcbs at home.  this would
> solve the prototype-board problem.

But would give you a bunch of other problems. I prefer perfboard.


> but, i would need a macintosh
> program that would let me layout the schematic, then have the program
> translate the schematic to a pcb layout.  is this possible on a mac?

Sure, there a many PCB layout programs for the Mac. Two free options  
for OS X are:

Eagle: free version is limited to 100mm * 80mm board size (I think)  
and one diagram sheet, and may not be used for commercial products.  
Otherwise it's identical to the professional version. Very powerful,  
but not very Mac-like (not very Windows-like either, there are  
Windows and Linux versions too). I takes a while to get used to it.

Epoxy: freeware, not restricted, but not as powerful as Eagle (at  
least the last time I took a look at it).

Ingo