i dont know what you guys call it there. but the person who makes the PCBs called it "butter paper". once he ran out of butter paper. so i went to a book shop and he gave me a sheet of butter paper. its actually a translucent paper, a bit yellowish in color and its quite hard to print something on it with an inkjet printer (it stuck twice in my printer )

 

well, u are welcome here.

actually in my view Pakistan is a great place for electronics hobbyists and students. thats because electronics supplies are dirt cheap here. mainly due to the unchecked smuggling from china and india. Nigel would u believe that i made the Ozipic programmer in Rs: 450 including the PCB and a 3M ZIF socket. thats about 4 pounds for you guys. and add another pound for the parallel port cable. the only thing missing here is foreign investment which is mainly due to bad politics. anyway lets get back to the topic.

i suggested PCB123 only because it is free and it can do most of the things Eagle can do. but i suggest Eagle as a better software. as for the simulation, i use Multisim. but thats just a personal view. i havent used much electronics softwares but out of the ones i have tried out i think Multisim+Eagle is a must to have.

 

do you have a TraxMaker tutorials? or do you know any site where i can find it? im new here so i still dont know my way around. thanks.

mae