After a successful first year of KiCon in 2019 in Chicago, it will change venues to CERN, a major contributor to the KiCad project! KiCon 2020: A KiCad conference at CERN, September 11th-13th, 2020 More details soon! If you’re interested...
The Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) is new annual conference for those building and using Open Source Hardware (OSHW) for scientific research:The GOSH movement seeks to reduce barriers between diverse creators and users of scientific tools...
LoFive RISC-V dev board designed by @Michael Welling now on GroupGets: LoFive is a small board based on the SiFive Freedom E310 open source SoC Specifications MCU – SiFive Freedom E310 (FE310) 32-bit RV32IMAC processor @ up to 320+ MHz (1.61 DMIPS/MHz)Storage...
Electrical Engineer Jenner Hanni (of OSH Park and Wickerbox Electronics) designed a protoboard DIP for the Next Thing Co. C.H.I.P. (“The World’s First Nine Dollar Computer”):DIP Protoboard for C.H.I.P.for when you need something more durable...
OSH Park engineer Jenner Hanni posted on Wickerbox Electronics about his Arduino Theremin project:This is a sort of false theremin that turns the distance between your hand and the rangefinder into notes. There are three cap sense pads you can touch...
Michael Weinberg of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) published this blog post for the 2017 Open Hardware Summit last week in Denver: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Open Source Hardware Licensing Open source hardware isn’t...
KiCad project leader Wayne Stambaugh talked at FOSDEM 2017 about KiCad’s current status and future roadmap:KiCad Project StatusWayne’s slides are available on Google Drive:Tomasz Wlostowski of CERN talks about the SPICE integration that was added to...
I really love DipTrace. I’ve used it for a few years now, and I am so familiar with its inner workings that I can be very efficient while using it. The prices for the full version are reasonable, but I use the free non-profit version. While this doesn’t...