sudomod

Hello all!

I'm working on a non-gbz project and I need some help.

I have NO idea how to design PCBs. But I can try and explain what I want. I will be using OSHPark to make these, so maybe @Helder could help?

There is a brd file on OSHPark that is correctly sized. I don't know how to delete/add/change board files so here's me asking for help. I want to build a breakout board to go from the ramps 1.4 stepper socket to a 6 Pin 2.54mm/0.1" PCB Screw Terminal Block
Board Size: 0.6″ × 0.8″
Pin headers are .1" male
Here's the pinout poorly drawn in Ms Paint :p I would be willing to pay a small fee to whoever can help me get these files needed to send to OSHPark for making. It's a small board, I know it fits in the eagle cad free size constraints. Silkscreen can be redone and whoever makes it can place their "mark" upon it. The mspaint text is the only things I want clearly silkscreened.

Hopefully i'm not off the deep end and this is something that can be accomplished!

Maybe you should take a look on google for '' fritzing '' as this should be what you needed/asked

I could help you out! I'm not going to be near a PC until Tuesday evening at the earliest though.

It looks like a good training project though really. I started off playing with fritzing. You can just draw a few pads, and pins, and link them all together quite easily, which is how I made this

https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/BP9tGKag

I say have a play, you might surprise yourself! But I will still be willing to help

Can do it easy with Fritzing, for free anyone could do it. good luck finishing your pcb!

I didn't see that one last night. I'll give it a shot.

SUCCESS

Thanks to you guys I tried and made a board! Fritzing is pretty darn easy And it exports Gerber files! And it's free!

Project is Jellypowered's Ramps Pololu to TB6600 board

Good work dude!
If you find you hit the limits of what you want in fritzing, try out upverter. It's a web based one which can import and export all the main other file formats like eagle and kicad
(i use kicad myself)

jellypowered wrote:SUCCESS

Awesome work dude! I think people get scared off by the fact that you are designing a circuit board, when actually it's not much different to paint

I made the jump from fritzing to eagle mainly because I wanted to use Linux again (plus making custom parts for fritzing sux). There is a series of posts on hackaday comparing the different PCB design tools if you get the bug

Something I noticed right away with Fritzing is it doesn't make it easy to have cutouts (or I haven't figured out how to do it)

I definitely got the bug, Once I need more functionality than Fritzing provides I will probably force myself to learn eagle.

jellypowered wrote:Something I noticed right away with Fritzing is it doesn't make it easy to have cutouts (or I haven't figured out how to do it)

I definitely got the bug, Once I need more functionality than Fritzing provides I will probably force myself to learn eagle.

fritzing is limited... so you're probably not missing anything (just see the hackaday "PCB in everything" series that acts as a basic tutorial for all the main ones) and if you're going to force yourself to learn one of the bigger ones, it seems there's a massive shift away from eagle now that the subscription pricing has come online. Even OSH Park lets you just drag and drop the raw KiCad .pcb file like you could with eagle files. KiCad has become much more usable (still a little esoteric but is properly free/FOSS) and I did the GBCartSlurp PCB as a way to learn KiCad. (last time I did any PCB design was at uni >15 years ago!)

tldr: if you don't already know eagle, skip it and go straight to kicad unless you need to for work or something