Project Club/Resources
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[edit] Parts
[edit] Internet
[edit] Local
- HGR - local industrial surplus warehouse, lots of large, expensive equipment, but also some sometimes decently priced electronic test equipment.
- Radio Shack
[edit] PCB Design
[edit] Design Software
EAGLE is a pretty cheap, cross-platform PCB design tool with a functionality-limited free version. There is also a tutorial on how to use it available from the download page.
[edit] Guides
There is a pretty good pcb design guide on the internet, available for free. However, this probably won't teach you the basics of interacting with your PCB design software, so you should read the documentation for your software and hope there is a tutorial.
[edit] Free PCBs
HEXAGRAM, a local company founded by Case graduate Larry Sears (who created the Undergraduate Circuits Lab), provides Case students with free PCBs. To take advantage of this offer, just make your rectangular PCB in ExpressPCB (ideally smaller than 3.8” X 2.5” so that the Miniboard service can be used) and mail your file to Paul Schneider, the Facilities Manager for the EECS department.
[edit] Machining
At Case, there is a EMAE172 is a class that will teach you all the basics of machine shop use, taught by the venerable Jim Drake.
[edit] Bingham
There is a machine shop in the basement of Bingham, run by Jim Drake, the teacher for EMAE172. In theory, you have access to the lab after taking EMAE172. In practice, it requires special per-use permission from Drake. This is kinda lame, and makes it even harder to do anything awesome on campus
[edit] Glennan
There is a machine shop on the second floor of Glennan, in the robotics lab there. It's a locked room which is itself inside of a locked room. It's not clear who controls access to the room, but it's possible that Professor Wyatt Newman is in charge of it. There was talk at one time, by Frank Merat, of offering short courses on how to use each machine shop tool, not unlike CU Boulder's ITL Laboratory. Nothing seems to have come of this though.
There is also a rapid prototyping lab on the 8th floor of Glennan, in the back of the Reinburger Design lab. You can get probaby stuff made there, for a fee, just talk to whoever is in the little room next to the computer lab.