[Noisebridge-discuss] [sudo-discuss] EAGLE alternatives or help

[Jake]

I would love to teach people how to use KiCAD sometime, perhaps on a 
tuesday night at sudoroom.

in the meantime, anyone who is interested in using it should go ahead and 
install it, using one of the methods i described in my previous message.

-jake

On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Lesley Bell wrote:

> 
> Oh no! If something makes EAGLE look easy, it must be horrible! :p
> 
> I actually don't think they're that different. KiCAD might be slightly more confusing and buggy than EAGLE, but not by much. I just haven't done quite as
> much with it.
> 
> Actually, a group KiCAD workshop might be a cool thing to have at a Sudo hardware night.
> 
> On Jul 4, 2015 2:57 PM, "Jake" <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>       Eagle is closed-source payware.  They let you design small boards for free, but if your design grows outside of the part count or space
>       limit, you have to pay to make larger designs.  It is a capitalistic enterprise.
>
>       KiCAD is a FOSS project written by people who do it for the love, and did i mention that all the source code (and software) is free?
>
>       I know that a lot of people are into EAGLE because it's "easy" and popular, but I think we should support Free & Libre software when we
>       can... and we can, because KiCAD totally works.
>
>       I made these boards with KiCAD recently:
>
>       http://spaz.org/~jake/pix/2015-6/IMG_20150610_193136.jpg
>
>       On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Lesley Bell wrote:
> 
>
>             I attended an Eagle workshop last year and created a few board designs. Not sure how much I remember but I wouldn't mind playing
>             with it again.
>
>             On Jul 4, 2015 12:57 PM, "Cere Mona Davis" <ceremona at gmail.com> wrote:
>                   Hi.
>             I'm trying to write up an EAGLE board layout and failing miserably.  I'm using the freeware EAGLE suite for the mac.  Dunno if
>             that's making my life harder
>             than usual or not, but does anyone have recommendations for good EAGLE tools and/or willing to help me figure out how to work
>             this thing?
>
>             -Cere
>
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