First attempt at PCB design

Hello Rob,

Your .pdf of the schematic hasn't worked very well, it's been chopped up into multiple pages. If you could set up your PCB CAD system to convert it to a single page .pdf it would be possible to look at it without printing and sticking bits together.

MK

Ah, my apologies, looks like my printing settings didn't get carried over. I've updated the link now.

// Robb

Hello, Would like to make some 'hobbyist level' PCBs and haven't made any for many years now. Since the day's that I was an electronics hobbyist (really want to get back into the subject though) Is there anyone on here that can make any recommendations on PCB layout software that is either reasonably inexpensive to buy failing that (and better still) downloadable under an Open Source license please?

Also are there any PCB manufacturer's that are willing to help hobbyists with their PCB needs as opposed to having to go to large scale manufacturer's of whom probably won't sell to end users only to volume buyers?

Are you making some form of weather station Robb? Sounds interesting anyway.

Hope I've not asked the above questions in the wrong thread. Should a new thread really need posting I've no problems with an administrator moving this post as necessary. Thank you.

I'm using Eagle free edition for this layout, I've found it relatively easy to use. The project is to battery power these and deploy them into a building to measure various environmental variables then collate and analyse the data.

// Robb

Hi Robb,

Thank you for the recommendation - Much appreciated (is this easy to use for newcomers?)

The project sounds fascinating. I'd love to build a RaspberryPi based weather station and understand that CPC are considering obtaining the PCBs for the AirPi weather station shield (possibly the full kit too but am not 100% certain about this).

Best Regards.

Hi Robb,

Thank you for the recommendation - Much appreciated (is this easy to use for newcomers?)

The project sounds fascinating. I'd love to build a RaspberryPi based weather station and understand that CPC are considering obtaining the PCBs for the AirPi weather station shield (possibly the full kit too but am not 100% certain about this).

Best Regards.

As I said, this is my first attempt at designing a PCB, I've found it relatively intuitive to use, there a few quirks that I quickly found out by studying existing schematics and board designs. but I found it quite easy to cobble this together from the existing schematics for the dev boards that I used in prototyping it.

// Robb

Hi, Can you make any recommendations where a PCB manufacturer is concerned please?

Thank you.