That's what I did. I can see that library, I can see the part if I open the library from the control panel, but not if I Use the library within the schematic editor.
Going thru the instructrable again this morning, I realise I am not quite finished - I only created the footprint so far, I need to tie it to an electronic symbol.
I was so relieved at appearing to have figuted it out mechanically, while at the same time getting the board routing to be what I think is finally done:
> no more overlapping traces - I had 2 vias right in the middle of SMD pads, and not the same signal, and in a very dense area too
> no crazy autorouted traces added in parallel, created by eagle when I autorouted to get the ground planes filled in. These seemed to be caused by my manual traces having one or two too many vias, so I found ways to minimize the jumps between layers.
> all the clearance errors fixed, so now everything is 5mil or more from everything else
> all the drill size errors fixed, seemed to mostly exist when a signal did something more than just change layers - like power & ground going to more than 1 place, or being a wider trace coming in than going out
> and finally all the text placement cleaned up, so now all Reference Designators can be read clearly;
that I forgot I hadn't done anything electrically with the new part! So, time to make a simple schematic symbol & see if I can Really finish my first symbol.
Then add it to the board, and also add in the A0, A1, D0, D1, etc type names by the pins.
I also saw Skyjumpers bare board Friday night and the size of the typical 0805 components used (on a Duemilanove anyway), that I was thinking I could solder manually; now I'm thinking the maybe not so much! And the reflow oven he has been working up is starting to look like a better idea!
His 1284P based board is also nice in that it is setup to have USB, RS232 via the 1284's internal UARTS, 4 RS485 channels via NewSoftSerial with screw terminals, reading of 3 external signals with screw terminals, 3 open collector drivers (ULN2803) with screw terminals to pull external signals low, in addition to the SD card and the standard shield support.
I changed mine to be more developmentally based with a DIP part, RS232 driver but not not a connector, I/O on a header socket vs screw terminals, both SD & Micro SD sockets, and added RTC, in a slightly smaller board since there are no screw terminals, with some jumper fields to be allow user changes, and the JTAG & ISCP headers, where he's/got a specific project in mind so we ditched JTAG and just pick up ICSP from the shield pins if needed - If you have a project that needs similar multiple serial I/O and other digital I/O then Skyjumper's board could be the ticket for you (plugging for you man!) with the screw terminals supporting a final project nicely.
I was just thinking, the footprint supports the 164P, 324P, 644P,1284P, only difference is the memory size (and ATMega chip price), so maybe a few models could be offered.
