Sour...
Soylent Green ?
This could cost a lot to fix...
Fixed with Sugru!
Worn saddle with Sugru
Entirely fixed
Colourful but mediocre in taste
Pork belly with sausage
LED-strip PWM / IR controller
Fried meat
Creamy berries
Egg-cited!
FAT with sauerkraut
6-Million-Cent-Man - Rev 0.001
LED_port-status
LED_port-status
Still at rest
Getting there...
Hmmmm
Dark-Star - Bomb #19
Dark Star
Dark Star - The Crew
Dark Star - Bomb #20
Patch applied
Hopefully fixed - 8 more to go
Offender removed
Resistor's new home
Tinned
Mask removed
Waiting resistor
Cut trace
About to cut a trace
Planned ESD protection
Hotplate SMD reflow
LED runway
Peppery pork belly
Pushing up the daisies
230V DC motor
Graphite brush
230V DC motor
AC stuff + bridge rectifier
Green PCB
Bread cutter innards
DC motor with fan
Bread cutter innards
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KiCad / gerbmerge panelization


KiCad: www.kicad-pcb.org
gerbmerge: ruggedcircuits.com/gerbmerge/
I made this a long time ago and never used it. But it shows that simple PCB panelization is doable with open source tools.
The routing paths and tabs were added with KiCad, which was a bit of a pain. You have to enter the start / end-points of the sectors in x / y coordinates. Specifying radius and angle is not yet possible. You also need to add '--no-trim-gerber --no-trim-excellon' to the Makefile. Otherwise the routing-paths get chopped off outside the bounding boxes.
The option to subtract the solder-mask from the silkscreen (KiCad gerber file creation) unfortunately upsets silkscreen duplication in gerbmerge, so it can't be used. The boardhouse should take care of that.
gerbmerge: ruggedcircuits.com/gerbmerge/
I made this a long time ago and never used it. But it shows that simple PCB panelization is doable with open source tools.
The routing paths and tabs were added with KiCad, which was a bit of a pain. You have to enter the start / end-points of the sectors in x / y coordinates. Specifying radius and angle is not yet possible. You also need to add '--no-trim-gerber --no-trim-excellon' to the Makefile. Otherwise the routing-paths get chopped off outside the bounding boxes.
The option to subtract the solder-mask from the silkscreen (KiCad gerber file creation) unfortunately upsets silkscreen duplication in gerbmerge, so it can't be used. The boardhouse should take care of that.
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