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On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:50:18AM -0400, Timothy J. Weber wrote:
> Peter Todd wrote:
> >> It could be the "badly dressed engineers of PicList" calender.  Groovy.
> > 
> > Awesome, I'll send in some pictures of me caving... just immaculately
> > dressed and smelling of mud.... Or maybe some when I still wore a fanny
> > pack...
> 
> The calendar would also include each month's PIClister's favorite 
> 12-line snippet of PIC assembly, and a one-sentence Lesson Learned 
> Through Failure.
> 
> My two most recent:
> 
> "Check for unrouted traces before sending the Gerbers off.  ...Idiot."
> 
> (why isn't that part of the Eagle DRC??)

Lord knows...

"Print out a 1:1 copy of your gerbers and see if the mounting holes on
your board are in the same galaxy as the ones on your associated LCD
screen... idiot."

> "When making an Eagle package, don't take the pin numbers from a diagram 
> in the data sheet that shows the package... upside down..."

Nice... I caught myself happily laying out traces to an IC recently on a
complex double sided board, LED digits on one side, smd parts on the
other. Unfortunately said IC and the digits were on the same side...
stupid xpcb and it's lack of keepouts...

- -- 
http://petertodd.org
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