Nice collection Bill, I'm pretty sure that they can be sqeezed further
as Olimex's minimum track width is 8 mil while 10 mil works pretty
well.

On the other hand one can use Far Circuits to get single sided boards
made. They are LOT LOT cheaper than Olimex and have low shipping.

Regards,

On 11/21/05, William Chops Westfield <westfw@mac.com> wrote:
> Hmm.  As a "training exercise", I entered most of the hardware boards
> in Eagle and did some simple single sided PCB layouts.  You can fit
> quite
> a few of the boards on (for instance) Olimex's 100x160mm $26 single
> sided
> PCB, and the design rules are pretty relaxed so they're probably easily
> made at home, too.  Of course, none of them have been tested at all :-(
>
> Alas, the tutorial progresses pretty rapidly to a point where you need
> two of the large-ish PIC "main boards", which doesn't fit very well on
> a single panel :-(
>
> Hmm.  I wonder if going double-sided and tightening up the design
> rules to 'professional' level would let more board fit on the panel?
> Another possible "exercise", I guess...
>
> The current state of my efforts is in
>      http://www.geocities.com/westfw/electronics/goodwin-tutorial.zip
>
> Let me know of errors, fixes and/or comments...
>
> BillW


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