Update: Adafruit Eagle library, now with Arduino

posted Feb 6th 2010 11:10am by Mike Szczys
filed under: arduino hacks, tool hacks

Adafruit Industries has just added an Arduino shield footprint to their EagleCAD library. If you don’t know, the Arduino headers use non-standard pin spacing. Learn to deal with it, there’s too many Arduino shields in production to have any hope for a change in the future. This footprint should make it a lot easier to design your own boards. If you use this package make sure you’re getting the library from their github, they’ve been adding parts regularly. Setting up version control will make sure you always have the latest libraries.

[Thanks pt]

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tagged: adafruit, EagleCad, library, shield

7 Responses to Update: Adafruit Eagle library, now with Arduino

CircuitPeople says:

February 6, 2010 at 11:55 am

Just FYI, PCB123 also has an Arduino sheild template (an actual board template, not a footprint). I’ve never used it, but noticed it’s there quite a while ago.

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Scotty says:

February 6, 2010 at 4:03 pm

Oh gawd…. there’s a learning curve to getting the download from github… OR you have to sign up. Spent two nights retrying the download, updating my eagle to the latest, you name it, the download is always corrupt. Tried IE, tried firefox, opened firewall all the way, grabbed the laptop and ghosted it back to XP fresh load, same results. Help doesn’t help… I’m an electronics hacker, don’t wanna be a web hacker… how about putting the needed clues right up front for us that just need to know how to obtain these PUBLIC files…

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Scotty says:

February 6, 2010 at 10:30 pm

504 Gateway Time-out
nginx/0.7.61
note statistics still say zero downloads
GitHub really giving me a bad taste…. I”ll continue to publish my own on google code

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axodus says:

February 7, 2010 at 12:17 am

@Scotty
to download a file: click the file name, right click on “raw” above the preview and select “save file as”

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Drone says:

February 7, 2010 at 2:34 am

Eagle and Arduino – they deserve each other. Yuck.

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Scotty says:

February 7, 2010 at 6:43 am

Thanks axodus for your 20 words of complete and accurate information!

in my opinion github may be fine for version control of all manner of files but it is so completely lacking an intuitive and user friendly interface, and does not follow commonly accepted and widely know practices, that it will have a large negative impact on any attempt to use it to distribute files to any target audience outside that of the current github community, (IE the general public).

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charliex says:

February 7, 2010 at 11:14 am

macetech has one that isn’t a part.

http://www.macetech.com/blog/node/92

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