Fighting Eagles

Who is this book for?

If you're a hobbyist looking to transform your designs into printed circuit boards, or perhaps you're just curious and eager to learn a skill you might find useful in your travels.

This book is for beginner to intermediate Eagle users and aims to brief you on every single step of the design process. You'll learn how to choose your parts, to creating landings, designing your schematic, then your board and finally verifying and sending your design for prototyping.

What will you learn?

You should come away from this course understanding of the whole process of PCB design. I'll brief you on the techniques, sizes and house rules that work for us at Pimoroni. You'll learn how to put them into practice and how to make sure you're getting things right.

I'll teach you how to create a design that's economical and manufactureable (that's a word, right?). You'll also learn how to choose between surface-mount or through-hole parts, and which chip landings to pick for amateur assembly.

What you won't learn?

I'm not a qualified electrical engineer. I work with low frequency, low power digital logic circuits. I wont be detailing the finer points of analog circuit design. I also wont be delving into things like parasitic capacitance or cross-talk. You won't learn how to design your circuit, overcome design problems, or what parts you should choose. These are all topics for other books.

What qualifies me to teach you about Eagle?

I use Eagle nearly every day in my role as a doer-of-makery-things at Pimoroni. I'm not an Eagle expert. This means I'm in touch with the questions, concerns and challenges faced by beginners. I've recently learned these things myself. The opportunity to constantly put them into practice professionally has made them stick.