PCB

Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and Electronic design automation (EDA) related stuff.

Design software

• Eagle EDA software from CadSoft
• gEDA - GNU EDA software
• KiCAD

PCB software

PCB is also the name of an open source PCB layout program, available from pcb.geda-project.org.

Documentation at: Pcb.

Building from source

(on Debian/Ubuntu-)

sudo apt-get install build-essential git gettext intltool flex freeglut3-dev texinfo texlive-latex-recommended libgd2-xpm-dev
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
git clone git://git.geda-project.org/pcb.git
cd pcb
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
make
make install

Fabricators

• Hackvana - Chinese/Australian/US-based site (see also PCB Q&As)
• PCBZone - New Zealand based manufacturer
• Fusion PCB Service from Seeed Studio

External links

• Comparison of EDA Software at Wikipedia
• gEDA at Wikipedia
• Kicad at Wikipedia