![]() Personally, I learned PCB design on Eagle. The free licenses will remain, and right now, it seems obvious Eagle will become Autodesk’s pro-level circuit and board design software. Of course, it should be mentioned that Eagle was recently acquired by Autodesk. These free licenses give you the ability to build a board big enough and complex enough for 90% of hobbyist projects. The reason for Eagle’s dominance in a market where people don’t want to pay for software is the free, non-commercial and educational licenses. Sparkfun uses it, Adafruit uses it, and Dangerous Prototypes uses it. Until KiCad started getting good a few years ago, Eagle CAD was the de facto standard PCB design software for hobbyist projects. Eagle CAD has been around since the days of DOS, and has received numerous updates over the years. For the first in a series of posts describing how to make a PCB, we’re going with Eagle. ![]()
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