Wednesday, May 11, 2011

My First PCB Design (Part 1)

I've been playing around with a rotary encoder I bought from sparkfun.The pins wouldn't fit in a breadboard and I got sick of spaghetti wires everywhere.

So I asked my local hacker space about PCB etching. I decided to give Iron On Transparency Sheets a go. But I got half way through buying the bit's I needed and then came across this site. I'd already done some Eagle Cad Tutorials to create my circuit for the Iron On sheets. So I looked at how cheap I could do a PCB run with the design I already had. It turns out Very Cheap! About $14 AUS for 10 pcs including shipping. I literally can't make them myself for that much so I thought why not give it ago!?

This is my first design.


The boards should arrive in a couple of days. I'll do another post when they arrive.

Here's a link to Part 2 of this post.

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9 comments:

Dave said...

Good work; any news yet on the quality of the finished product?

And if you'd like to sell a couple (well, three) of your spare boards......!!

Dan Thompson said...

Hi Dave,

I just looked into this and apparently it is still in transit. It's generally a 10 day turn around so they should arrive early next week.

I'll definitely do a post when they arrive. And if enough people are interested I will start a little online shop. I have other ideas for simple useful PCBs. Been designing a timelapse shield for the LUMIX GH1/2 cameras. So if the quality is alright I might do a run of these as well.

Thanks for your interest. Watch this space! :)

Dan Thompson said...

Part 2 of this post is now up!

http://danthompsonsblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-first-pcb-design-part-2.html

Anonymous said...

how you upload you're design

Dan Thompson said...

Anomymous,

I not sure I understand your question, can you be more specific? Upload to where? Are you looking for eagle files? if so you can down load them from here:
http://www.inmojo.com/store/disassemble-reassemble/item/rotary-encoder-breakout-pcb-only/

Anonymous said...

i 'm ask how you upload you're design this site (http://iteadstudio.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=19).i also want create PCB.i design Eagle Schematic and Eagle layer out.i want to upload my project this site (http://iteadstudio.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=19).how i upload.the give link after we pay money.

Dan Thompson said...

Hey Sorry I took so long to reply. You caught me at a busy time. Here's a link with the steps you need to follow to send your design to iteadStudio.

Hope this helps!

Dan Thompson said...

opps forgot to post the link! :)
http://iteadstudio.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=19_20&products_id=173

Circuit Board said...

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