89 Results for "kicad"

KICAD Raytracing
Hacker page by Alexander
KICAD has been growing on me lately. Now that I use Linux full-time, starting a VM or rebooting into Windows just to use Diptrace was getting annoying. It doesn't run well under WINE (despite what the official website seems to imply), and so I've been...

KiCAD trial
Hacker page by Alexander
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...

Native Kicad upload
Hacker page by oshpark
Continuing with our goal to simplify Open Source Hardware fabrication, we’re very pleased announce that we’re finally able to accept direct uploads of KiCad PCB design files on OSH Park!For designers, this means that you can place an order without going...

KiCad at FOSDEM 2017
Hacker page by oshpark
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...

KiCad crash course this weekend
Hacker page by oshpark
Learn how to design boards in KiCad this Saturday, April 28th, with Michael Welling: One day KiCad Crash Course We’ve asked Michael Welling of Qwerty Embedded Design to come to Reno to drop some knowledge on KiCad, an open source and multi-platform...

Manual assembly of KiCad PocketBone
Hacker page by oshpark
Success! Manual assembly of the KiCad-designed PocketBone by @Michael Welling with the Octavo Systems OSD3358 SiP (System-in-Package):BGA achievement unlockedMichael used vacuum pickup tool to manually place the components: He then used Reflowster to...

NextPCB Plugin-In for KiCad
Hacker page by Sam
Transmit your KiCad Layout to NexPCB for a quick 1 click quote Have you ever had the trouble of going to the PCB quote page to re-input parameters after Kicad finished the design? We fully understand your feeling, so today we have specially solved this...

KiCad Crash Course in Reno
Hacker page by oshpark
Interested in learning how to design boards in KiCad? Check out this upcoming 1-day class with @Michael Welling in Reno, Nevada (USA) or watch it online: One day KiCad Crash Course We’ve asked Michael Welling of Qwerty...

Using freeRouting with Kicad 5
Hacker page by Ken Yap
I was not looking forward to the manual work of routing traces in pcbnew (Kicad 5) so I started looking for autorouters. In Kicad 5 this is currently done externally, whereas 4 had a builtin autorouter. Now I know this is a controversial topic because...

Nanite Single Sided V2: Eagle and Kicad
Hacker page by danjovic
Following a suggestion from [tekkieneet] to rotate the microcontroller 90 degrees and move the push-button to the right edge of the board I have redesigned the layout this time also using Kicad. Here are the resultsIn EagleAnd in Kicad (dimensions in...

KiCad conference comes to Chicago in April
Hacker page by oshpark
Chris Gammell writes on the Contextual Electronics about the first ever user focused KiCad conference, which is happening April 26th and 27th 2019 in Chicago (USA): KiCon 2019 As you may know, KiCad is a very big part of CE....

Getting to Blinky with Kicad 4.0
Hacker page by oshpark
Chis Gammell of Contextual Electronics and The Amp Hour teaches Kicad beginners how to design a simple board in this new video series:Getting To Blinky 4.0KiCad 4.0 introduced different methods of library management and workflow from the 2013 release...

Convert Inkscape SVG drawings to KiCad footprints
Hacker page by oshpark
Thanks to facelesstech for tweeting this design tip:svg2mod by mtl is a small program to convert Inkscape SVG drawings to KiCad footprint module files:SVG graphics in KiCad (svg2mod)There didn’t seem to be a good way to get vector graphics into Pcbnew,...

KiCad footprint for Nokia 5110 LCD
Hacker page by oshpark
@Sven Gregori created a KiCad component and footprint for the Nokia 5110 LCD and created this breakout board to test it:Yet another Nokia 5110 LCD breakout boardI just shamelessly measured all there was to measure and created my own KiCad PCB footprint,...

Plated slots for OSHPark in KiCAD
Hacker page by ventosus
I have always thought that OSHPark do not support plated slots at all.But this is actually not true anymore, they (OSHPark) just don't officially support it ;-)You apparently have to mark the plated slots on the outline/edge layer for the fab-house to...

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