Re: Eagle CAD design and fabrication of C64 & Plus4 cartridges

From: Rob Clarke <crock_at_clarke-family.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:57:07 +0100
Message-ID: <41869a83de7128e143cc828240405316.squirrel@www.clarke-family.org.uk>
Hi Jim,

> I have a pretty good template for EAGLE for C64 cartridges, one that will
> fit in
> both types of cartridge case available today, as well as original CBM
> cases.

That would be great if you could share that. It'd be much easier for me as
a beginner to adapt something that already exists rather than build
something from scratch, with due credit of course. :-)

>>
>> Second, once I have something, could anyone provide a recommendation for
>> a
>> company that can make small orders of boards in western Europe from
>> submitted eagle files?
> EAGLE will create GERBER files (I have a tweaked job file that will create
> all
> the required files, including the drill file and a file showing board
> edges for
> EAGLE) and then you can send those anywhere.  I have 2 board shops that
> are very
> quick and economical and take Paypal as payment, which alleviates issues
> with
> bank transfers.  They are not, though, in Western Europe, so if that's a
> hard
> requirement, others will have to chime in.

I just assumed that postage would be a factor but I guess it depends on
charges. Again, having no experience of this I have no idea what the
minimum order sizes are likely to be, but I hoped they would be <= 10
boards.

>
> Can't help with +4 at this time, though I would be interested in anything
> you
> find.

I'll be sure too.

Rob

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