{"id":1818,"date":"2009-05-01T13:18:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T20:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:08","slug":"cadsoft-eagle-support-forums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/cadsoft-eagle-support-forums\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadsoft Eagle Support Forums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Twitter users, sorry for the link spam, but I thought this was valuable enough to stick up on the blog!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who uses <a href=\"http:\/\/cadsoft.de\">Eagle<\/a> will be happy to know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaglecentral.ca\/\">Stratford Digital<\/a> is hosting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaglecentral.ca\/forums\/\">a web forum version<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cadsoft.de\/forum.htm\">Cadsoft support newsgroups<\/a>.\u00a0 In their native format, the Cadsoft newsgroups require an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nntp\">NNTP<\/a> newsreader &#8211; hats off to anyone who actually has one installed these days (I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smfr.org\/mtnw\/\">MT-NewsWatcher<\/a> on the Mac).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Home\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eaglecentral.ca\/forums\/\"><span class=\"headtitle\">EAGLE Enterprise Toolkit Forums<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter users, sorry for the link spam, but I thought this was valuable enough to stick up on the blog! Anyone who uses Eagle will be happy to know that Stratford Digital is hosting a web forum version of the Cadsoft support newsgroups.\u00a0 In their native format, the Cadsoft newsgroups require an NNTP newsreader &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/cadsoft-eagle-support-forums\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cadsoft Eagle Support Forums<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[98,195,216,218,217],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-resources","tag-eagle","tag-forums","tag-links","tag-netnews","tag-nntp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-tk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3754,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/oshw-logo-announced-eagle-ulp-available\/","url_meta":{"origin":1818,"position":0},"title":"OSHW Logo Announced, Eagle ULP available","author":"Jeff","date":"April 9, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"On Thursday, the OSHW folks announced the results of their logo selection process. The logo shown above, created by\u00a0Macklin Chaffee, will soon become a regular feature of OSHW designs. \u00a0You can expect to see it silkscreened onto printed circuit boards, CNC-cut into metal enclosures, and laser engraved onto just about\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Electronics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Electronics","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/electronics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/OpenHardwareLogo.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":638,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/new-tutorial-from-sparkfun-electronics\/","url_meta":{"origin":1818,"position":1},"title":"New Tutorial from SparkFun Electronics","author":"Jeff","date":"November 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Nathan at SparkFun Electronics just released a new tutorial about making Better PCBs in Eagle.\u00a0 Lots of interesting tips, check it out.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Electronics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Electronics","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/electronics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":953,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/free-ipc-7351-land-pattern-calculator\/","url_meta":{"origin":1818,"position":2},"title":"Free IPC-7351 Land Pattern Calculator","author":"Jeff","date":"December 31, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's say you are designing a printed circuit board in Eagle, and you need to place a component that you've never used before.\u00a0 In Eagle, before you can use a new component, you need a land pattern, a schematic symbol, and a mapping between them to fully define the part.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books and Resources&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books and Resources","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/books-and-resources\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Thin SOT23 8-pin Package Land Pattern Screenshot","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ipc-lp-calc-500x365.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":979,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/gerbv\/","url_meta":{"origin":1818,"position":3},"title":"gerbv &#8211; A free, open source gerber viewer for Linux \/ OS X","author":"Jeff","date":"January 5, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"When you finish a PCB design, you typically use the CAM export function of your layout tool to generate a set of gerber files to send to the PCB manufacturer.\u00a0 To avoid errors in the finished board, it's usually a good idea to review the files before you click send.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books and Resources&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books and Resources","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/books-and-resources\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"gerbv screenshot","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gerbv.sourceforge.net\/GerbvScreenshot.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1639,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/esc-beagle-board-class-wrapup\/","url_meta":{"origin":1818,"position":4},"title":"ESC Beagle Board Class Wrapup","author":"Jeff","date":"April 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This week I attended the Build Your Own Embedded System (BYOES) classes at ESC 2009. 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At the moment there are forums for: My Wifi Radio project The AVR HV Rescue Shield My Bluetooth Handset Hack The DIY PID Controlled Soldering\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books and Resources&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books and Resources","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/books-and-resources\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"A new forum for each major project on the site!","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/forums.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7880,"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/7880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}