New uRuler

[miguelvp]

How about making the gerbers available like you did for the last version.

They are available as far as I know, you look for them.

hint: not in the forum but on the actual blog paged as I recall.

[timofonic]

Are there the original Altium files?

I would like to modify them with KiCad, try to add some stuff (logic probe? Not symbols? The symbols to draw? Suggestions welcome) and submit it here.

I may have issues, but I need to learn KiCad ASAP because I use Linux. I'm not going to use Windows or pirated OrCAD.

[pcbguy1927]

I only see gerbers for the old one.

[miguelvp]

my bad, saw two revisions and thought it was the newer one, I guess the original one had two revisions.

[DutchGert]

A little bit offtopic but does anyone know a (cheap) fab where I can order some selfmade rulers? A lot of cheap fab houses don't offer very good silk screen resolution and since that is key here i'd like to know what fab houses do offer high quality silk screen for a compedative price.

[DutchGert]

A little bit offtopic but does anyone know a (cheap) fab where I can order some selfmade rulers? A lot of cheap fab houses don't offer very good silk screen resolution and since that is key here i'd like to know what fab houses do offer high quality silk screen for a compedative price.

Anyone?

[timofonic]

A little bit offtopic but does anyone know a (cheap) fab where I can order some selfmade rulers? A lot of cheap fab houses don't offer very good silk screen resolution and since that is key here i'd like to know what fab houses do offer high quality silk screen for a compedative price.

Anyone?

I would like to know it too!

[nanofrog]

+1 

[thx130]

A little bit offtopic but does anyone know a (cheap) fab where I can order some selfmade rulers? A lot of cheap fab houses don't offer very good silk screen resolution and since that is key here i'd like to know what fab houses do offer high quality silk screen for a compedative price.

Ask for Photoimagable Ident, it is more expensive but much sharper than the inkjet or silkscreened ident used as standard.

Source: work for a ciruit house

[MattHollands]

I'm in!!!!!! 

[timofonic]

A little bit offtopic but does anyone know a (cheap) fab where I can order some selfmade rulers? A lot of cheap fab houses don't offer very good silk screen resolution and since that is key here i'd like to know what fab houses do offer high quality silk screen for a compedative price.

Ask for Photoimagable Ident, it is more expensive but much sharper than the inkjet or silkscreened ident used as standard.

Source: work for a ciruit house

That's interesting.

What about making symbols be able to be used to draw them? I posted some images about it, I think.

Maybe the manufacturer could get crazy about so many drilling?

[johnh]

i will take another set of 5

[tomy983]

Would love one!

[EEVblog]

Wow, I can't believe it's been 2 years since I did this v3 µRuler 
Guess I should get off my arse and do some more.
I'm just looking at it again and thoughts on the back side imperial scale. Do I need all those different scales? (might be confusing?), or will just two different ones be enough? If so, which ones?, I'm not a Yank so I don't really know what are the most used imperial scales
Other stuff to add/remove?

[CatalinaWOW]

I am sure there are many opinions on this, but the only imperial scales I use with any frequency are tenths, eighths, quarters.  Sixteenths occasionally.  Thirty seconds and sixty fourths never.  Same for twentieths and fiftieths and hundredths.  When needing more accuracy a ruler isn't the tool and decimal fractions are the answer, even in Imperial units.  I have never seen a micrometer calibrated in 512ths or whatever, and most of the calipers which have fractional scales also have sensible decimal scales.

I would consider extending the temperature conversion table to cover temperatures found worldwide.  -40C to 60C would cover ski areas and northern Europe, while getting most of the automobile in the sun temps.  The five deg C resolution is appropriate.  If you need tighter you go to your calculator or a bigger table.

[EEVblog]

I would consider extending the temperature conversion table to cover temperatures found worldwide.  -40C to 60C would cover ski areas and northern Europe, while getting most of the automobile in the sun temps.  The five deg C resolution is appropriate.  If you need tighter you go to your calculator or a bigger table.

Yep I was looking at that and thinking maybe it's a bit inadequate.
Many have said the Tantalum table is useless, and probably so, although I always forget the A/B/C/D package to metric conversions.

[chriswebb]

https://www.amazon.com/Westcott-Punched-English-Metric-Inches/dp/B0006OKGY0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1476924545&sr=8-1&keywords=ruler

Bog standard ruler here in the states.

[EEVblog]

I am sure there are many opinions on this, but the only imperial scales I use with any frequency are tenths, eighths, quarters.  Sixteenths occasionally.  Thirty seconds and sixty fourths never.  Same for twentieths and fiftieths and hundredths. 

Yep, I was thinking of dropping the 64th and 50th as they are too small and maybe the the 0.5mm as well, as they are all a bit fine.
The 16th scale obviosuly handled the 1/4 and 1/8 as well.

[mpicker21]

I'm a yank and although we were introduced to metric pretty well in school I still struggle sometimes with conversions between nano, micro, pico, etc. I know, I'm a noob. I feel ashamed that I have to leave a browser tab open with cap values.

[boffin]

0.3" lead forming would be nice (small diodes, 1/8W res)

[rs20]

As a mostly metric animal, I think 20ths of an inch are occasionally useful, I think you may as well keep them there (at the very least, as the little minor ticks). I must point out that there are two separate sections of the ruler there marked "1/10" and "1/20", but they look identical. It's obvious that tenths are the big ticks and 1/20 are the small ticks, but it still irks me that they're labelled as if to imply that the two sections are different in some way.

I'd be very keen to keep the 32nds. So I guess I'm suggesting, drop the 1/50, and drop the 1/64. At least that's symmetrical, one off each side.

I really like the design in the 1/32 section, with the ticks of 3 different lengths -- there is some argument perhaps for just extending this along the entire ruler?

[EEVblog]

I really like the design in the 1/32 section, with the ticks of 3 different lengths -- there is some argument perhaps for just extending this along the entire ruler?

Yep, only argument against is clutter I guess.

[JS]

  Finer than finer isn't needed, in analog meters was quite acceptable to use up to 1/10th of a division, and good luck to fine a pencil of 1/10th of a mm to write with.

  Resistance of a square could be useful along the copper thickness.

JS

[EEVblog]

  Resistance of a square could be useful along the copper thickness.

I've got miliohms/in vs trace sizes

[alexanderbrevig]

Maybe use your proposed OSH cog wheel?