gEDA-user: Automatic collection of Digi-Key data

[Mark Rages <markrages@mlug.missouri.edu>]

Hi everybody,

I'm using geda for the first time, and I plan to buy all my parts from 
Digi-Key.

I got tired of manually keying in attributes to symbols, so I wrote a 
script to get the values in a Python dictionary.

It's at http://mlug.missouri.edu/~markrages/software/digikey.py/

todo: It should be possible to automatically set the footprint, once I
collect the mapping from Digi-Key footprint types to gEDA/pcb footprint
types.  Also, I can make a script that downloads datasheets for the
entire BOM, sorted by uref.

todo: For certain parts (R/C/SMT transistor) it should be possible to 
generate the entire symbol based on Digi-Key's category and footprint 
information.  If I do this, I'll mail the list again.

Regards,
Mark
markrages@mlug
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