Comments on: Eagle PCB Design Software and its legacy in the Open Hardware Community – An interview https://www.open-electronics.org/eagle-pcb-design-software-and-its-legacy-in-the-open-hardware-community-an-interview/ Open source electronic projects Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:30:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Kenneth Scharf https://www.open-electronics.org/eagle-pcb-design-software-and-its-legacy-in-the-open-hardware-community-an-interview/#comment-9775 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:46:00 +0000 http://www.open-electronics.org/?p=5924#comment-9775 Eagle’s non-commericial license is a reasonable way for a hobbiest to learn the tool and produce boards for his own use. The cost of even the minimal commericial license is a bit steep for a hobbiest that wants to dip his toe in the water of a commericial venture. I’d like to see Eagle offer an intermediate cost option for open source startups. IE: If you publish the Eagle cad files for any item that you sell, including any libraries that you create then your startup commerical venture would qualify for a reduced cost commerical license. Other reasonable limits could be placed on the license, such as term, number of projects, or sales volume ($) before upgrading to a full commericial license would be required.

]]> By: Eagle PCB Design Software + Open Hardware Community – An interview « adafruit industries blog https://www.open-electronics.org/eagle-pcb-design-software-and-its-legacy-in-the-open-hardware-community-an-interview/#comment-9773 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:24:26 +0000 http://www.open-electronics.org/?p=5924#comment-9773 […] Eagle PCB Design Software and its legacy in the Open Hardware Community – An interview | Open Elec…. […]

]]> By: Justin Shaw https://www.open-electronics.org/eagle-pcb-design-software-and-its-legacy-in-the-open-hardware-community-an-interview/#comment-9772 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 01:49:00 +0000 http://www.open-electronics.org/?p=5924#comment-9772 Even though many open hardware projects are made with EAGLE, I’d venture to guess that there many many open hardware projects that violate the non-commercial terms of the $169 (closed source) licence CadSoft offers.

I just found out the cost for a small business licence (3 seats) that WyoLum might use to develop playing card size PCBs: $1,230. I’d rather spend that money supporting the Open Hardware Summit or WyoLum Innovation Grant. And that licence will not even allow us to design the boards for our flag ship: ClockTHREEjr as it is much large than a playing card.

When the Open Hardware definition was first created KiCAD was usable (we used it) but still very rough around the edges. Now with support from CERN (the super collider) KiCAD is getting better all the time. This last week Anool lead a workshop with 7 novices that culminated with each student shipping off a custom design for their project to OSHPark. KiCAD worked very well as is a great complement to the Open Hardware philosophy.

Why pirate Eagle (and I know some of you are) when you can join the UN-limited KiCAD community and be 100% open source?

]]> By: Eagle PCB Design Software and its legacy in the... https://www.open-electronics.org/eagle-pcb-design-software-and-its-legacy-in-the-open-hardware-community-an-interview/#comment-9768 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 06:02:54 +0000 http://www.open-electronics.org/?p=5924#comment-9768 […] Eagle PCB Design Software it’s hugely adopted across the Open Source Software community: surely many of you already used Eagle to create boards and circuitry and the Eagle format has become sort of a standard in the maker community to share design openly.  […]

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