**FIRST EMAIL**/Altium Designer Available for Teams to Download!

[Mark McLeod]

Greetings Teams:

Be one of the first teams to design your own electronics into your robot using Altium Designer, the world’s leading unified electronics design tool. Altium Limited is now a proud sponsor of the FIRST Robotics Competition and is making the latest version of our software, Altium Designer 6, available free to all FRC teams.

Altium Designer is an end-to-end electronics design system that allows you to create from scratch, the same electronics you find in everything from satellites, car telemetry systems and even mobile phones. Now you can make your own electronics to give your robot more functionality and intelligence. Give your robot a competitive edge by trying Altium Designer - the same software used by the engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

You can start straight away because Altium Designer has everything you need to get started on your projects. So to find out how you can get your free copy and what it can do for you, visit our webpage at http://www.altium.com/frc2008/

Go Teams!

[EricVanWyk]

This brings a tear to my eye. Altium is, by far, my favorite EE cad package to date. And now all my little FIRSTies are going to get to use it.

Ok, first team to recreate the IR board in Altium gets a cookie.

[matrixrobotics]

Hi,

Has anyone else had any trouble getting a license for this? I requested ours almost 2 weeks ago and nothing. It's getting a little late to making PC boards.

Charlie

[dyanoshak]

Has anyone else had any trouble getting a license for this? I requested ours almost 2 weeks ago and nothing. It's getting a little late to making PC boards.

Charlie, did you ever get your license? I sent an email request a few days ago... I'd like to know if I should expect a response.

David