Cadsoft EagleCad Tutorial Lesson 1
Why Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange recommends it
Electronics Stack Exchange answerers point beginners to it as a gentle first step into learning Eagle for PCB design.
Recommended by 4 people across 5 different months, 2011 to 2013.
What it is
A short screencast that opens a series of EagleCAD tutorials. It covers the home window, how to create a new project, and how to open a new schematic in Cadsoft Eagle, presented by the rpcelectronics channel.
What people said
Recommends pingswept · 2011-02 · Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange · on “Useful book for PCB design”
My experience learning to lay out PCBs was that books are not helpful at the early stages. I'd start with free layout software like Eagle [LINK] and some good tutorials [this video] . Once you've laid out a couple of PCBs, the first book you linked to (High Speed Digital Design) is great-- the best reference on high speed design that I know of.
Recommends Toby Jaffey · 2011-07 · Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange · on “Getting started with PCB designing”
Eagle CAD is popular package with hobbyists. There is a free version available (limited to 2 layers and small boards for non-commercial use). Eagle has many advanced features beyond what Fritzing does, but it's bewildering to learn for a beginner. I found this video series helpful in getting started. [this video]
Recommends Suboptimus · 2011-08 · Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange · on “Low-cost PCB prototyping”
A few months late, but if it helps, I was in a situation that sounds similar to yours and we chose Eagle and had satisfactory results. This was also a startup-type situation, me and a friend. We had intended to just build hand-soldered breadboard prototypes but it became so tedious that we just decided to get ambitious and learn PCB design. We are both software guys by trade, my partner had some hobbyist electronics experience but board design was not something either of us had experience with. We went with Eagle because it's (relatively) cheap, supports Mac (the software side of our project is Mac-based), and has some traction in the hobbyist community (i.e. parts libraries available for a
Recommends Suboptimus · 2012-01 · Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange · on “Designing a single-board computer and getting it manufactured”
1) Buy a microcontroller development kit to start. Maybe an STMicro STM32F4Discovery [LINK] because they are around $15 and pretty powerful. Spend some time learning how to program it, wire some stuff to the pins and learn how to work with peripherals like GPIOS, PWMs and ADCs. You will need to pick up some electronics background as you go, just to understand what these things are, what they do, and how to use them correctly. 2) Read the schematics for the board, in the case of the STM32F4Discovery, they are here [LINK] . You will need to fill in more of your electronics background to understand the schematics. 3) Learn to use an EDA tool so you can do your circuit design and board layout. E
Recommends boardbite · 2013-04 · Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange · on “How do I create a permanent application from something prototyped with Arduino?”
@taco: Not too difficult to design a basic PCB using, e.g., EagleCAD software (free). You can start with this video tutorial series [this video] and work your way up. Alternatively, Jeremy Blum also has a couple of tutorials on his webpage [LINK] that are pretty good.