I’ve spent some time lately sorting out a utility to tile Gerber files. I’ve wanted a utility to do this for a while, but I couldn’t find a utility that would work for me. Then I came across libgerbv, which is the backend library of gerbv, a Gerber viewer.
Since then, I’ve submitted two patches to gerbv, which were both accepted really quickly (yay!).
I had some other issues with libgerbv that I have fixed locally, and I’m working on cleaning up my patch for submission. It needs to touch some more things than my last two, so it’ll take me a little longer. I’ll be talking about that more soon when it’s compatible with gerbv CVS (CVS == sneeze).
It was only after I’d written most of the utility and come across the first libgerbv bug that I discovered that gerbv can do Gerber file tiling when invoked from the command line. My utility has a slightly different than gerbv’s. Anyway, more on that later.
Spirals
I’ve also been working on making a utility to make spirals on PCBs. It’s available here. If you’re interested, you can build it like so:
git clone git://gitorious.org/pcb-spiral/mainline.git pcb-spiral cd pcb-spiral git submodule init git submodule update make
Maybe it’ll be useful to someone else too…
I’m releasing the PCB designs for the univ430 under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike license.
Why non-commercial? I used a freeware version of EAGLE to design the board, which comes with the condition that designs made with it are used in non-profit applications. Any moment now I will start using gEDA — I promise. When gEDA gets to the top of my project stack again, I will migrate!
You can download the tarball containing the PCB designs here.
univ430 adapter by Robert Spanton is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
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