My Daunting Task

I've made some massive progress in getting my effect pedals (and their site) up and running over the last few days, and one big item was my selection of a PCB manufacturer. Rather than me making the boards one at a time by hand, I can have a box of them mass-produced and ready to have parts dropped in. Not only with this save me money (after the setup investment), it will save my most precious commodity: time. Of course, I won't need fancy boards for all my stuff, but for effects with lots of components and traces, it'll be nice to have machined boards.

This then, brings me to my Daunting Task of the Week: converting my "io Super-Distortion's" Photoshop-drawn PCB trace into an Eagle CAD file. Only when I've done that, can a PCB manufacturer machine boards. Ugh.

As you can see in the above pic, I have 38 components and LOTS of crazy traces to place, and I am TOTALLY not look forward to it. For starters, I have to create the schematic from scratch in Eagle — and that'll totally stink. And by the time I finish this conversion, I could have probably made a dozen boards by hand. But, once I get it done, it will be done forever — so I just have to buck-up and take the lumps for now.

You can also tell I'm procrastinating by whining about it here...

Posted by on 05/09 at 02:24 PM

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