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20
May

Starting with EAGLE

By Miguel Nunes|Electronics, Open Source Software, PCB Design|Be the first to comment!

The FREE version of  CadSoft EAGLE PCB Design Software is great to do PCB design for simple boards, up to 10×8 cm area, up to 2 layers. Here are some steps to get started:

1. Download the free version of Eagle (Mac, Linux, Win) just go to: http://www.cadsoftusa.com/download-eagle/

2. Go trough the 3 tutorials made available on the Sparkfun website:

3. Check these videos

If you don’t want to deal with size or layer limits then try KiCad: http://www.kicad-pcb.org/

 

08
Aug

WordPress permissions problems

By Miguel Nunes|Programming, Web Tools|Be the first to comment!

Permissions are a common problem when installing WP. It took me hours to try to figure out the best permissions configurations and finaly I realized that there is a filesystem method in WP-config that overrides the direct file I/O by using the FTP credentials:

In wp-config.php

Change

define(‘FS_METHOD’,’direct’);

to

define(‘FS_METHOD’,’ftpsockets’);

If the above does not solve your permission problems try:

$sudo chown -R YourUserName:www-data

$sudo chmod -R 775 *

 

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