In recent years, printed circuit board manufacturers have made it possible to produce PCBs of different shapes, thicknesses and colors. I thought of using this possibility to create a PCB with the shape of Italy and with 20 RGB LEDs, one for each region, to display different information: The ItalyMap project was born. Thanks to…
The PCBShopper website compares the prices of the most used PCB services. Jeremy Ruhland published on his Github’s repository an Eagle script (ulp, user language program) that automatically gets the required information from an Eagle project and compiles the PCBShopper web form. Let’s see how to use it: – first click on pcbshopper.ulp and display his source code (RAW button). – save…
I’m working with Eagle to prepare a PCB for a Nixie clock. I wasn’t able to find a library for the Nixie I chose so I had to create it from scratch. Nixie’s datasheet has the following drawing about pins disposition: Let’s see how to draw it in Eagle, thanks to an ULP (User Language Program). Choose File – Run ULP……
Many PCB services now are able to produce custom shaped PCBs: for example Seeedstudio’s FusionPCB service (I’ve already blogged about it) in the past published photos of round PCBs… and even doll-shaped ones: In this tutorial I’m going to show how to draw custom shaped PCB using Inkscape and Eagle. Workflow Eagle’s PCB editor doesn’t offer advanced drawing tools (Bezier…
When you draw a cicle in Eagle, it normally has only the outline… here’s a quick trick to fill it: Right click on the circle and choose Properties: Set 0 as the Width value: