Okay. This may not be the best way to do it. But I don't know anybody around me who can help so, what the hell, I'm just giving it a shot.

I have an idea for a product. It is first of its kind (though not the 1st in its SIMILAR kinds) and it is related to cars.

It is an electronic product and I am only a software engineer.

I am looking for someone with circuit board design experiences, as well as experience in using/designing with LCDs. PM me if you are interested.

PS:
Please, I need someone who CAN START DOING IT IMMEDIATELY and NOT someone who needs to learn and then try...the subject is certainly attractive (who doesn't want to be entrepreneur?) but if you're not expertised enough you simply waste time includes yours.

 

I am a sw eng too. Don't u wish you know how to use orcad!

 

What r u suggesting? That I pick up a book and learn?

 

Um, on this boards I know me and Vaus can work w/ LCDs and have PCB design experience, however we are full time students If you PM me or Vaus about your idea, I'm sure either of us would be happy to give you feedback. As I stated we're both students and neither of us could give a rat's **** about bringing a product to market.


As for circuit board design, I don't know how difficult your circuit is going to be, or how large it will be? Eagle and PCBexpress have free/trial software that isn't as powerful as Orcad (can't do as many mask layers and a lot of other bs most people don't care about) but is easy to learn, as long as you have some understanding of circuits.

If you're talking about the actual Orcad Layout software, you don't even need a book. You put in a circuit in Orcad Capture, create a netlist, import it into Layout, set the footprints, then drag the components where you want them to physically be. I have no idea why people get paid 60,000 a year to do this crap...

Besides, Orcad PSPICE also has a free student version which limits your simulation design to 25 transistors (dunno if you have transistors on your board)


As for LCD's, if you are already a software engineer it should take you maybe a few hours to understand how to use them (you send an 8 bit bus to the LCD to display characters, and there are a bunch of other pins as control lines). If you PM me I have an excellent article in CQ (amateur Radio Mag) about working w/ LCD's that I can send you.