I ended up going with the prototyping wingshield from adafruit. It makes for easy connection to the pins and nice little board to solder on the needed resistors and pots. Gonna put everyting into a small plastic box and then mount that in my panel.
I/we use cadence orcad and allegro at my office. It's expensive, but there's a great book out there that's written towards using cadence but includes a wealth of pcb manufacturing/design knowledge.
with exception to spice - a circuit simulator
The inability to do more than 2 layers in eagle is a downer, I didn't know that!
I don't know if anyone has suggested Sparkfun,
I also got PCB's made up by a factory, I used this place in china
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/fusion-pcb-service-p-835.html?cPath=185
not bad service but it takes about 3 - 4 weeks to get boards
"I also noticed yesterday when I was on advanced circuits site" ^^^
Got a link to that site?
WCB
helibrewer said:I think it's this one: http://www.4pcb.com/free-pcb-layout-software/index.html
Yup that's it. If anyone here gives it a try let me know how you like it or better yet how it compares to any of the other free tools out there. I may have to start using it if I get a new job and am no longer doing any PCB layout in my new position.
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