Cadsoft Eagle was included in the Forget Me Not contestant kit so I wanted to showcase it being used to design a circuit board for this challenge.
The demo is in the form of a narrated slide show because I can't talk fast enough to keep up with a real time video of the design process.
Although the presentation might be used as a tutorial, it is intended more to show the steps in a typical design process and provide a feel for the amount of effort needed to design a schematic and a PCB. I have used many CAD packages and I like Eagle the best for its good performance/price ratio and the high productivity I can achieve with it.
Update 1:
Here is a picture of the PCB back from manufacturing:
Note how well my scanner can see through the cards - the traces on the other side appear as dark traces.
Here is the assembled module populated with the components I need for my 5V to 12V converter application - and it works well:
Although the 15 minutes I spend designing, assembling and testing this card could have been spent hand-wiring an equivalent solution, I got 10 cards at $1 per card and they can be populated with different modules and connectors to provide different power supply requirements, including a switched USB power hub, all with no re-design.
Here is a link to my Forget Me Not project:
