Make Your Own PCBs with EAGLE: From Schematic Designs to Finished Boards

Chapter 1. Introduction §Printed Circuit Boards§Surface mount and through- hole§Prototyping§Installing EAGLE Light Edition§First Run§Load an example project§Install Third-Party Software§Light Edition limitations§Summary§Chapter 2. Quickstart §Creating a New Project§Drawing the Schematic§Electrical Rule Check (ERC)§Laying Out the Board§Summary§Chapter 3. Components and Libraries §U.S. verses European Circuit Symbols§Resistors§Capacitors§Transistors and Diodes§Connectors§Other Components§Buying Components§Paper PCB§Summary§Chapter 4 Editing Schematics §The Anatomy of the Schematic Editor§The Command Toolbar§Nets§Busses§Worked Example (sound meter)§Summary§Chapter 5 Laying-out a PCB §Experimenting§Layers§The Command Toolbar§The Grid§Sound Meter Layout (Through-Hole)§Sound Meter Layout (Surface Mount)§Manual Layout §Summary§Chapter 6 PCB Fabrication §Gerber Files§Loading a CAM Job§Running a CAM Job§Measure Twice, Cut Once§Submitting a Job to a PCB Service§Follow the Instructions§Photo Etching§Milling PCBs§Toner Transfer§Summary§Chapter 7 Soldering §Tools§Soldering Through-Hole§SMT Hand Soldering§SMT With Hot-air Gun§Using a Reflow Oven§Summary§Chapter 8 Example: An Arduino Shield §Introducing Arduino§The Arduinin R3 Shield Template§A 4 Digit LED Example§Fabrication§Summary§Chapter 9 Example: A Raspberry Pi Expansion Board §Design Considerations§The Schematic§The Board§Summary§Chapter 10 Commands Scripts and User Language Programs §Commands§Scripts§User Language Programs (ULPs)§The ULP Langauge§Summary§Chapter 11. Creating and Libraries and Parts §Creating a library§Copying a Device from Another Library§The Part Editor§Devices, Symbols and Packages§Editing a Part§Creating a New Part§Summary§Appendix A. Resources