Pixelblaze V3 Fritzing/Eagle part files

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Hello all,
I’ve decided to turn over a new leaf and make some more … pretty … installations (bed lights for my kids, with a force sensitive strip that can tell if they get off the bed, thus turning on night-lights).

As I might route or order some PCBs for this, I’m wondering if anyone out there has fritzing part files for the v3 standard board. (alternately, I occasionally trudge through eagle, and if someone has an eagle part file, I could probably make that work as well)

Thanks!

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Hey @bdm!

I haven’t used it more than an hour, but I was able to use Eagle with the v3 part files here:

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Thanks Jeff!
These will do the job perfectly.

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At the risk of resurrecting an old thread, does anyone happen to have schematic files for the Output Expander? They don’t appear to be in that repo linked above.

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Repo here

Check branches for versions.

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So, a year after it looks like the last time I got into this, I dug in again. Hand-soldered PCB boards are only so attractive…

I made a custom library with a Pixelblaze 3.4 footprint, including the solderable pads on the back.

It appears I am unable to upload it here, so I’ve uploaded it to github:

Note, this is just for 3.4. The only thing that is different to the newer version is the tabs on the reverse side - and if you aren’t planning on using those, then this footprint will work fine.

I have PCB tabs available to correspond to the tabs on the pixelblaze 3.4, with the expectation that you’d solder a length of wire to connect the two (+/- a connector).

Hope this helps!

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