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Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky
Isn't there a rule restricting electronics suppliers to Radio Shack, Digi-key, Newark-in-one, and Future Active? Aren't all these other electronics suppliers (except perhaps if its a duplicated of something from the kit) illegal?
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Max,
Eagle (from CADSoft) is the Autodesk Inventor Tool for Electronics Design, you can create your schematic, and then layout your board with it, and there is a free version on the Web site. I would encourage anyone interested in electronic design to take a look at it. APCircuits would be something like sending the Mechanical Design out to a Machine Shop to be created. The cost of manufacture of the circuit board is part of the build cost. The components to put on the board need to be taken from the restricted electronics supplier, and also count toward the cost of the robot.
-Jim