Seeed / CircuitMaker Contest

[JamesH-AltiumOfficial]

Hi all,

CircuitMaker and Seeed Studio are collaboratively hosting a design contest based on Seeed’s Wio LTE development board. The Wio LTE development board is geared to low power IoT applications which can take advantage of the LTE network and GPS capability. The possibilities are endless!
 
How to Enter:
Just “fork” the official CircuitMaker design  and start designing!
1) All entries must be designed in CircuitMaker and be a fork of the original Seeed project.
2) All entries will be Open Hardware since they will be public projects on CircuitMaker
3) Projects may be “sandboxed” until they are ready for public release
 
Judging Criteria
The contest judges for the main prize will be Wio’s LTE product management team and will base their judging on three criteria:
1) Potential for design to enter mass production as a real product
2) Completeness and polish of design
3) Completeness and polish of documentation and part list
 
Prizes
Wio LTE award: $1000 PCBA coupon to Seeed’s Fusion. The coupon can be applied to Seeed manufacturing services.
Community Choice award: $100 PCBA coupon to Seeed’s Fusion service based on number of “thumbs up” on a project.
Participation award: All entrants will receive a $50 PCBA coupon to Seeed’s fusion towards prototypes of their projects.

Dates
Contest will be announced June 1st and will run until June 30th. Winners will be announced July 7th.

Best regards,

James Harriman
Altium

[Zbig]

If the general sentiment towards CirciutMaker on this forum (and this thread's lack of popularity, to look no further) is in any way representative to the whole EE community, hardly anyone cares about this cloud storage only software that forces you to share your files. You guys made a sensible move with the CircuitStudio price reduction. Don't waste it, focus your efforts on making CircuitStudio a go-to entry-to-mid-range EDA tool. FWIW, you still haven't fixed the component rotation bug introduced in CS1.4 (seriously...).

[Warhawk]

Although it is hard to disagree with you, eevblog forum members don't matter. Altium brings bread to their employee's table and the company seems to be doing well.
Don't get me wrong my Slavic fellow but I am just tired of seeing every second post in the PCB/EDA/CAD discussion about the Eagle&CM cloud thing. This is the 21st century where digital and content marketing is more than any engineering science. Over and above, I tried CM because I use AD professionally and it is not bad. The number of quite decent projects stored in the cloud also speaks for itself.

That's having said give the guy break and let's all be happy that big companies finally stopped ignoring hobbyists.

[JamesH-AltiumOfficial]

Hi Zbig and Warhawk,

Thank you both for your feedback.

The workflow is very similar between CircuitMaker, CircuitStudio and Altium Designer.

CircuitMaker is focused on the "Maker" community so collaboration of projects and community libraries are used. You do indeed need to save your projects to the cloud (two can be kept private) but the product is completely free and doesn't add limits to layers or component count or board size.

CircuitStudio is available for purchase from Element14 (Premier Farnell/Newark) and uses the same SchLib + PcbLib and Integrated Libraries as Altium Designer, plus has access to the Altium Content Vault library. The files are saved locally and the license is a Standalone perpetual license that works offline. Both CircuitStudio and even CircuitMaker may be used to produce commercial products.

The known issue of rotating a selection will be fixed in the next update. It's easy to work around: please hold the Shift button when pressing Spacebar, to rotate anti-clockwise instead.

Altium Designer has some advanced features such as rigid/flex board design and Active Route and is about to receive a significant performance boost in version 18 with more multi-threading and 64-bit support.

The various products allow Altium to cater to a wide group of circuit and PCB designers.

Even if you're not a Maker it may be useful installing CircuitMaker and forking the Seeed project to see how it all works and how easy it is to browse the many projects shared by other Makers.

Best regards,

James Harriman
Altium

[Bud]

Although it is hard to disagree with you, eevblog forum members don't matter. Altium brings bread to their employee's table and the company seems to be doing well.
Don't get me wrong my Slavic fellow but I am just tired of seeing every second post in the PCB/EDA/CAD discussion about the Eagle&CM cloud thing. This is the 21st century where digital and content marketing is more than any engineering science. Over and above, I tried CM because I use AD professionally and it is not bad. The number of quite decent projects stored in the cloud also speaks for itself.

That's having said give the guy break and let's all be happy that big companies finally stopped ignoring hobbyists.

If eevblog forum members don't matter why this Altium guy is wasting his time here.

21 century and all that i say is BS. No sane person will agree to the cloud model. So yes be prepare to see more of pushing back.

 I am also a AD user and i also tried CM and i found it, well, funky. Makers-yes, should be fine for them though.