Make Your Own PCBs with Eagle

Learn how to make double-sided, professional-quality PCBs from the ground up using Eagle — the powerful, flexible design software. In this step-by-step guide, electronics guru Simon Monk leads you through designing a schematic, transforming it into a PCB layout, and submitting standard Gerber files to a manufacturing service to create your finished board.

Filled with detailed illustrations, photos, and screenshots, this book includes downloadable example projects so you can get started right away.

What You'll Learn

• Install Eagle Light Edition and navigate the views and screens of an Eagle project
• Create schematic and board files for a simple LED project
• Find the right components and libraries for your projects
• Work with the Schematic Editor
• Lay out PCBs with through-hole and surface-mount components
• Build a sound level meter with a small amplifier and 10 LEDs
• Generate Gerber design files for fabrication
• Solder through-hole and SMD boards
• Design a plug-in Arduino shield
• Build a Raspberry Pi expansion board
• Automate repetitive tasks using scripts and User Language Programs
• Create your own libraries and parts, and modify existing components

Book Details

• Author: Simon Monk
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill / TAB Electronics
• Pages: 272 (paperback)
• ISBN-10: 0071819258
• ISBN-13: 860-1400849866