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Ivan is looking for an image tool to make an image into a pcb board. Does anyone know of any programs that will do this? Post a note in the comments! [Ivan] - Link

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September 14th, 2007

I came across this problem because I wanted to put my web site logo on a printed circuit board a few months ago. You can take a drawing in Inkscape (which can be anything, including a bitmap) and convert it (using pstoedit) into a document for the open-source PCB layout program called “pcb”, part of the gEda open source suite.

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/pcbtools

It’s a little bit complex, but darned if it doesn’t work:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jillianisaphotographer/503976229/in/set-72157600230024988/

-Windell.

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