With some help from a friend, I have designed a circuit to control the motor of a special felt rolling machine I built for my wife.
The prototype is working just as intended but is "birdsnest" construction.
And now she wants another machine
I really would like to do a PCB for both machines (print-iron-etch) and so have tried a couple of ways of laying out the tracks - and failed miserably.
I've tried it manually with ExpressPCB(.com) but got nowhere at all.
Next I tried Eagle from CadSoft.de - and only got little closer using it's autorouting feature.
What I seem to be missing is the mental image of where to put the components in relation to each other. I can move things about and watch the traces get more or less tangled, but I can't get anywhere with any of the strategies I tried.
I'd really like someone to have a look and help me - or point me in the right direction.
It needs to be a single-sided PCB but I don't mind using wire bridges to help untangle the traces.
I've attached the original schematic and both EAGLE and ExpressPCB file attempts.
Anyone here clever enough to get me under way again?
Cheers,
Joe