Library Posted at: Tue, Jul 13th, 2010 | 11:01AM UTC By Josh Ashby

I have just recently started to build my own Eagle parts library as I move to SMD parts, and parts that are not as common as resistors for footprints.

You can get the library here, along with an updated/fixed version of the Sparkfun library that has the correct pin-out for the Attiny45-SOIC-8.

Libraries at Github

Etching Tutorial take 2 Posted at: Thu, Jul 1st, 2010 | 11:07AM UTC By Josh Ashby

My first etching tutorial was both my first tutorial, and also a tutorial in a subject that was fairly new to me at the time. In other words, it sucked. Big time.

This time I’m going to try to do it right, and have photos to prove it, So lets get started. Today I’m going to teach you, or make a feeble attempt at teaching, how to etch a board, from start to finish.

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BOB update Posted at: Wed, Mar 17th, 2010 | 4:55PM UTC By Josh Ashby

Half the time, something works, the other half of the time it doesn’t, and the other half of the time, it just goes up in smoke. As such was the case with my V1.5 Rev. 1 quad motor controller. Read more…

Drill press Posted at: Sun, Mar 7th, 2010 | 9:42PM UTC By Josh Ashby

Having completed etching my Quad Low-side motor controller board, I needed to drill out the holes, the only problem: I don’t have a drill press, and the nearest readily available one is at my grandparents house two towns away.

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