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  • Category: Open Source
  • Founded: Aug 31, 2005
  • Language: English
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This group is for users of Kicad, the amazing integrated EDA program. Not only does it capture schematics and layout PCBs, it is open source, free and runs on a range of platforms. This group concentrates on actually using Kicad, so post your questions, hints, tips and suggestions for improvements.

Download Kicad from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=145591

The Kicad Wiki can be found at : http://kicad.sourceforge.net/

KiCad author's page - http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/

For details of uploading your libraries, symbols and footprints go to http://www.kicadlib.org

For building Kicad from source and other development questions visit the kicad-devel group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel

For Spanish users of Kicad, see http://groups.google.com/group/kicad-users-es?hl=es

Please read the Kicad FAQ in the group files section before posting your question.

Please post your bug reports to the group where they will be picked up by the creators of Kicad.

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SeeedStudio's PCB service [WAS:Pluto's not a planet, it's a proto bo
THanks for the tip about SeeedStudio's PCB. Excellent pricing, and even a substantial discount for Open Source projects, which current project happens to be,
Posted - Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:47 am
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Re: Pluto's not a planet, it's a proto board!
AHA! so it's the spacing between pads/holes kinda thought so. Putting the sockets inside one another was my first thought. I've took your advice and
Posted - Wed Nov 25, 2009 2:08 am
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Re: Pluto's not a planet, it's a proto board!
Think of veroboard 0.1 spacing. A normal 16pin dil is 4 holes across. The larger 24-40 pin chips are 7 holes across. If you are really sneaky (not to mention
Posted - Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:35 am
Andy Eskelson
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Re: Pluto's not a planet, it's a proto board!
when you say 0.3 and 0.6 do you spacing between the holes/pads? Or the size of the pads themselves? Thanks for the tip on the AVR, i had no idea you could
Posted - Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:24 am
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Re: Pluto's not a planet, it's a proto board!
Pic's come in all sizes and packages. 8, 18 24 both skinny 0.3 width and normal 0.6 and so on. As do AVR's I've not done any AVR programming, but there are
Posted - Wed Nov 25, 2009 12:58 am
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