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Troubleshooting a circuit is easy, right? All you need is a couple of hands to hold the probes, another hand to twiddle the knobs, a pair of eyes to look …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: Circuit Scout Lends a Hand (Or Two) for Troubleshooting
What if I told you that you might never need to draw a new footprint again? Such is my friend’s impression of the tool that she’s shown me and I’m …read more Continue reading Easyeda2KiCad: Never Draw a Footprint Again
You know the old saying. When all you have open is KiCad, everything looks like a PCB. That was certainly true for [Evan], who needed to replace a 2.5D small …read more Continue reading Nail, Meet KiCad
Migrating a PCB design from one CAD software package to another is no one’s favorite task. It almost never works cleanly. Often there are missing schematic symbols, scrambled PCB footprints, …read more Continue reading Importing EAGLE Projects Into KiCad 7, And How To Fix Them
The dystopian future you’ve been expecting is here now, at least if you live in New York City, which unveiled a trio of technology solutions to the city’s crime woes …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 16, 2023
One of the most laborious tasks in PCB layout is the routing. Autorouting isn’t always perfect, but it is nice to have the option, even if you only use it …read more Continue reading Kicad Autorouting Made Easy
[Jarrett] recently stumbled upon a class of drawing algorithms called force-directed graphs, which artificially apply forces to the elements. The final graph is then generated by applying the laws of physics …read more Continue reading Physics-Controlled Component Auto-Placer
Yesterday, the KiCad team has released KiCad 7.0.0 – a surprise for those of us who have only gotten used to the wonders of KiCad 6, and it’s undoubtedly a …read more Continue reading KiCad 7.0.0 Is Here, Brings Trove Of Improvements
[Bob Alexander] is in the process of designing a homebrew discrete TTL CPU, and wanted a way to enter schematics for digital simulations via a Verilog RTL flow. Since KiCAD …read more Continue reading Create Your RTL Simulations With KiCAD
[Tom Verbeure] recently found himself lamenting the need to take screen grabs from an Advantest R3273 spectrum analyzer with a phone camera, as the older gear requires you to either …read more Continue reading Building a Fake Printer to Grab Screenshots Off the Parallel Port