Collaborate Disseminate
A few days ago, KiCad 8 was released, and it’s a straight upgrade to any PCB designer’s quality of life. There’s a blog post as usual, and, this year, there’s …read more Continue reading KiCad 8 Makes Your Life Better Without Caveats
We love Blender. It brings you 3D modeling, but not in a CAD way — instead, people commonly use it to create animations, movies, games, and even things like VR …read more Continue reading From KiCad to Blender for a Stunning Render
You might remember that KiCad 7 came out this February, with a multitude of wonderful features. One of them was particularly exciting to see, and the KiCad newsletter even had …read more Continue reading Revive A Sony Vaio P-Series With KiCad’s Background Bitmaps
When I saw this year’s Supercon Vectorscope badge, I decided that I had to build one for myself. Since I couldn’t attend in-person, I immediately got the PCBs and parts …read more Continue reading Vectorscope KiCad Redrawing Project
If you’re like us, there’s a creeping feeling that comes over you when you’re placing an order for parts for your latest project: Don’t I already have most of this …read more Continue reading EcoEDA Integrates Your Junk Bin into Your Designs
These days, when it comes to GPS devices the antenna is typically part of the package. But what better opportunity for [Pepijn] to learn how to make a GPS antenna …read more Continue reading Designing a PCB GPS Antenna From Scratch
After years of seeing people showing off and trading their badge Simple Add-Ons (SAOs) at Supercon, this year I finally decided to make one myself. Now for a first attempt, …read more Continue reading Chip Shortage Engineering: Misusing DIP Packages
Although some of the first Android-powered smartphones had them and Blackberries were famous for them, physical keyboards on portable electronics like that quickly became a thing of the past. Presumably …read more Continue reading Thin Keyboard Fits in Steam Deck Case
Jumperless is a jumperless breadboard with multicolored LED visualization of signals in real-time. Sounds like magic? This beautifully executed entry to the 2023 Hackaday Prize by [Kevin Santo Cappuccio] uses …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: Jumperless, The Jumperless Jumperboard
When working on a PCB design in KiCad, it’s helpful that the files are all text and can easily be checked into Git or other source control. However, stepping back …read more Continue reading Where Did Your PCB Go Wrong? KiRI knows