{"id":98,"date":"2013-10-03T16:18:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T16:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/?p=98"},"modified":"2014-10-23T19:42:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T19:42:37","slug":"pcb-tools-and-gerber-viewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/pcb-tools-and-gerber-viewer\/","title":{"rendered":"PCB Tools and Gerber Viewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mech.vub.ac.be\/teaching\/info\/mechatronica\/finished_projects_2012\/ecu\/PCB_board.jpg\" width=\"696\" height=\"338\" \/>Though seemingly outside the realm of chemistry, electronics lie at the heart of many experimental disciplines as all rely ability to make accurate and reproducible measurements. \u00a0An unfortunate byproduct of this requirements is often the reliance on outside sources&#8211;just look at your oscilloscope should there be any questions. \u00a0In an effort to minimize this reliance an maintain a solid knowledge base within the laboratory we often use the following tools for simple circuits:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cadsoftusa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eagle<\/a> &#8212; Great, <em>free<\/em> board editing and layout tool<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gerbv.geda-project.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gerbv<\/a>* &#8212; Simple, <em>cross-platform<\/em> gerber viewer<\/p>\n<p>*for those working in OSX \u2660<a href=\"http:\/\/brew.sh\/\" target=\"_blank\">hombrew<\/a>\u2660 must be installed prior to installing gerbv. <em>Beware, homebrew will change your life.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though seemingly outside the realm of chemistry, electronics lie at the heart of many experimental disciplines as all rely ability to make accurate and reproducible measurements. \u00a0An unfortunate byproduct of this requirements is often the reliance on outside sources&#8211;just look at your oscilloscope should there be any questions. \u00a0In an effort to minimize this reliance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[10,12,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clowersresearch.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}