Circuit board design complete
- published
The circuitboard layout design of the VCO has been completed. My tool of choice to design circuitboard is KiCAD. I have evaluated Altium Designer, but as far as I can see, for simple designs KiCAD fits the bill. The only thing KiCAD is missing, but Altium has, is a way to link part to a manufacturer and supplier so one can quickly select parts, see stock,find alternatives etc.
However, I digress. The design is available here.
Also, I had the design fabricated by dirtypcbs.com. They provide a cheap, no-nonse PCB fabrication service. You can get a protopack of ~10 units. My order contained 19 boards. so if the design contains no error I could make 19 oscillators! (yay)
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