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Make High-Quality PCBs at Low Cost

Matthew Scarpino

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Matt Scarpino has succeeded where scores of others have failedhes managed to make the formidable EAGLE software understandable and, more importantly, useable. His presentation is not only approachable and logical, but its complete. When youve finished his book, youll be able to do something meaningful with EAGLE. This book belongs on every engineers bookshelf or tablet.

Bryan Bergeron, Editor, Nuts & Volts Magazine

Matt Scarpinos Designing Circuit Boards with EAGLE is a great resource for electronics enthusiasts who are ready to get serious and produce their own circuit boards. Matts sensible instructions take readers through the steps to design simple and not-so-simple circuit boards, and you can really tell that hes been using EAGLE for 10 years and loves it. Im recommending this book to all my maker friends.

John Baichtal, Author of Arduino for Beginners: Essential Skills Every Maker Needs

With the rising popularity of open source hardware projects, the EAGLE circuit board software has become a vital tool for both hobbyists and professional engineers alike. Designing Circuit Boards with EAGLE provides all the information youll need to get up to speed with the EAGLE software, and to start creating your own circuit board designs. Matt Scarpino has provided a great tool for the hobbyist starting out in the circuit board design world, demonstrating all of the features youll need to know to create your own circuit board projects. However, the experienced engineer will also benefit from the book, as it also serves as a complete reference guide to all the EAGLE software configuration settings and features. His insightful guidance helps simplify difficult tasks in the EAGLE software, and his handy tips will help save you hours of trial-and-error experimenting in your circuit board designs.

Rich Blum, Author of Sams Teach Yourself Arduino Programming in 24 Hours and Sams Teach Yourself Python Programming for Raspberry Pi in 24 Hours

As I write this in late 2013, the Maker Movement has flourished from a tiny group of tinkerers into a passionate community of millions. Hobbyists have become entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs have become large-scale manufacturers. 3-D printers have fallen into the price range of the average consumer, and the printers capabilities have risen to such an extent that theyre being used to fabricate high-precision aircraft parts and medical equipment. With good reason, many economists and journalists have likened the rise of the Maker Movement to a second Industrial Revolution.

Nothing better illustrates the movements success than the popularity of the Arduino platform. The first Arduino board design, the Arduino USB, was released in 2005, giving students and hobbyists a low-cost means of programming Atmel microcontrollers. Since then, hundreds of thousands of Arduino boards have been sold, and the Arduino family has expanded to include a vast array of boards, shields, kits, and accessories. Arduino boards have found their way into robots, musical instruments, game platforms, and even unmanned aerial vehicles. The boards have become so popular that many hobbyists-turned-entrepreneurs use them to build prototypes of new inventions.

But Makers still demand more: more capability, more affordability, and more customization. This means designing new circuit boards, a task that requires specialized knowledge and software. Most professional design tools are beyond the price range of the average Maker, but not EAGLE. Since its release in 1988, EAGLE has grown steadily in features and stability while maintaining a price that even cash-strapped students can afford. EAGLE wins legions of admirers with every new version, and the analogy couldnt be clearer: What Arduino is to hardware, EAGLE is to software. Its no wonder that all open-source Arduino designs are released in EAGLEs format.