Today we announce the winners of the Cadsoft Eagle hobbyist licenses. Eagle is really popular in open source hardware, and these licensees give you more space and features for your next project. The hobbyist license enables everything in the EAGLE Standard Edition (six signal layers and 160x100mm routing area) with all three modules (Layout+Schematic+Autorouter).
There were lots of great ideas for project that would benefit from the extra features of the hobbyist license, thanks for your submissions.
Congratulations to Alex Whittemore, his idea for rocket motor monitoring system scored a hobbyist license:
The Boston University Rocket Team designs and manufactures experimental hybrid HTPB/N2O rocket motors for research. As it stands, all the PCBs that go into the data acquisition system fit within the free area spec. Our next big goal, however, is to fly one of our research motors. The footprint demands of fitting our flight electronics into an airframe are much different from the current static test design. The schematics and systems are largely the same, but our PCBs will need to be much more integrated (larger single-board area) and much longer than the maximum free dimension of Eagle…In all, an Eagle hobby license would be HUGE for enabling our next steps.
John M. wins a license for his Nixi Clock project:
I’ve started an open source Nixie Clock project, but I’ve hit a roadblock with the free version of Eagle due to board size limitations. The ‘tube board’ needs to be relatively long and narrow to properly space out the tubes, and the free version only allows space for 3 tubes (out of 6!)…
Steve Marple scores the last license for an open source magnetometer:
I’m in the process of designing/prototyping an open-source magnetometer for AuroraWatch UK. We have a few designs on our web pages but nothing which gives a digital output. The aim is to produce a simple kit which can be built at home/school and allow members of the public to contribute their magnetometer readings to the AuroraWatch network. In addition to being a fun project we hope that crowdsourcing will give us a more resilent and accurate aurora prediction service…I already have an open-source development board and a wifi/SD/magnetometer shield, but I can’t fit everything into an 8 x 10cm PCB.
Thanks to Cadsoft and Farnell for the free swag.
Thank you for participating, there we a bunch of great ideas.
Congrats to the winners
Congratulations! and thanks to the sponsors :).
Congrats people.
When will the first DP satelite be launched? :P
Congratulation to winners !
I hope I will lucky next time :-)
Wouldn’t it be preferable to use an actual, ya know, Open Source, program instead of Eagle? I mean, it’s nice of the Eagle folks to provide the hobbyist license and all, but it’s still a closed-source, proprietary product. Maybe we should do more to encourage people to use, and contribute to, Kicad, gEDA, etc?