Re: Power / Comms Attempt

I'm interested in having a go at doing up a single-sided comms board. Want
work on it together?

-Sebastien

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 15:19, you wrote:
> i think the comms board is a good candidate for making it one-sided.
> i think it would be a good intro into doing stuff with kicad too. if
> i get some time later tonight or this week, i think i'm going to give
> it try. i got a few ideas that might make it easier to do which
> would really rock. the easier it is to make, the better.
>
> plus, with a 1sided board, you can do the copper on one side and do a
> laserjet transfer on the otherside that has component instructions
> like part #'s, polarity, etc. that would be REALLY handy.
>
> ~Zach
>
> On 2/21/07, Vik Olliver wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 23:59 -0500, Zach Hoeken wrote:
> > > 2. the simple components like capacitors, resistors, and led's all
> > > have pretty long leads. i mean really long. they could reach much
> > > farther than they are displayed in the design. what if we used that
> > > fact to our advantage when attempting single sided boards. you could
> > > route more wires in a larger gap created by these parts. i dont know
> > > if kicad allows that though.
> >
> > Great to see such progress. I'm still stuck on contract work for the
> > next week at least - arrrggghh!
> >
> > Is anyone single-siding the comms board?
> >
> > Vik :v)
> > -------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<-----
> > "My rule is, if I can't share it with you, I won't take it."
> > -- Richard Stallman
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sure... lets each take a shot at it. its a really basic circuit, but
there are definitely some improvements that could be made in the
layout (the circuit itself would be exactly the same)

~Zach

On 2/21/07, Sebastien Bailard wrote:
> I'm interested in having a go at doing up a single-sided comms board. Want
> work on it together?
>
> -Sebastien
>
> On Wednesday 21 February 2007 15:19, you wrote:
> > i think the comms board is a good candidate for making it one-sided.
> > i think it would be a good intro into doing stuff with kicad too. if
> > i get some time later tonight or this week, i think i'm going to give
> > it try. i got a few ideas that might make it easier to do which
> > would really rock. the easier it is to make, the better.
> >
> > plus, with a 1sided board, you can do the copper on one side and do a
> > laserjet transfer on the otherside that has component instructions
> > like part #'s, polarity, etc. that would be REALLY handy.
> >
> > ~Zach
> >
> > On 2/21/07, Vik Olliver wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 23:59 -0500, Zach Hoeken wrote:
> > > > 2. the simple components like capacitors, resistors, and led's all
> > > > have pretty long leads. i mean really long. they could reach much
> > > > farther than they are displayed in the design. what if we used that
> > > > fact to our advantage when attempting single sided boards. you could
> > > > route more wires in a larger gap created by these parts. i dont know
> > > > if kicad allows that though.
> > >
> > > Great to see such progress. I'm still stuck on contract work for the
> > > next week at least - arrrggghh!
> > >
> > > Is anyone single-siding the comms board?
> > >
> > > Vik :v)
> > > -------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<-----
> > > "My rule is, if I can't share it with you, I won't take it."
> > > -- Richard Stallman
>
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