Make Your Own Pcbs With Eagle ― From Schematic Designs to Finished Boards

Electronics guru Simon Monk eases the learning curve for EAGLE—the powerful, free program for designing your own printed circuit boards (PCBs).

Featuring detailed illustrations and step-by-step instructions, Make Your Own PCBs with EAGLE: From Schematic Designs to Finished Boards leads you through the process of designing a schematic and transforming it into a PCB layout. You’ll then move on to fabrication via the generation of standard “Gerber” files for submission to a PCB manufacturing service. This practical guide offers an accessible, logical way to learn EAGLE and start producing PCBs as quickly as possible.

• Written for hobbyists
• Presented in an easy-to-follow tutorial style
• Offers a modern approach, including surface mount design
• Explains how to create schematics from scratch and how to select components from the libraries
• Shows how to validate a PCB and produce error-free, industry-standard files
• Heavily illustrated with screen captures and step-by-step instructions
• Real-world electronics projects are used as examples

Dr. Simon Monk has a degree in Cybernetics and Computer Science and a PhD in Software Engineering. He spent several years as an academic before he returned to industry, co-founding the mobile software company Momote Ltd. Dr. Monk has been an active electronics hobbyist since his early teens and is a full-time writer on hobby electronics and open source hardware. He is the author of numerous electronics books, including Programming the Raspberry Pi: Getting Started with Python; 30 Arduino Projects for the Evil Genius; and Arduino + Android Projects for the Evil Genius, as well as co-author of Practical Electronics for Inventors, Third Edition.