[Noisebridge-discuss] Help with Eagle CAD

[Andy Isaacson]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 02:38:47PM -0700, Lamont Lucas wrote:
> btw, I tried gEDA and found it to be painful.  It's possible to use open 
> source tools, and at the very least you can check your work with the pcb 
> viewer, but it was beyond my skill level at the time.

I used GEDA for my board design and found it to be much less painful
than running Windows; YMMV.  (I'm especially bad at running Windows,
though, so I hope nobody takes this as advice.)

I've been meaning to run a GEDA tutorial course at Noisebridge.

It's my impression that GEDA has gotten more friendly over the last 18
months, and I thought I heard tell of a new GPLed PCB layout tool, but
now I can't find a link to it.

-andy