Collaborate Disseminate
Prolific hacker [Sulfuroid] is a medical doctor by day, and an electronics hobbyist by night, and quite how he finds the time, we have no idea. The project we want …read more Continue reading This ESP32 Pico Wristwatch Has Plenty Of Potential
Let’s make one thing abundantly clear. We do not, under any circumstances, recommend you replace your existing collection of wrenches with ones made out of PCBs. However, as creator [Ben …read more Continue reading Ultra Cheap PCB Wrenches Make Perfect Kit Accessory
I’ve been following the development of KiCAD for a number of years now, and using it as my main electronics CAD package daily for a the last six years or …read more Continue reading KiCAD 6.0: What Made It and What Didn’t
There are many, many video tutorials about designing the functional side of PCBs, giving you tips on schematic construction, and layout tips. What is a little harder to find are …read more Continue reading Advanced PCB Graphics with KiCAD 6 and Inkscape
When it comes to electronic design, breadboarding a circuit is the fun part — the creative juices flow, parts come and go, jumpers build into a tangled mess, but it’s …read more Continue reading Tricked-Out Breadboard Automatically Draws Schematics of Whatever You Build
Sometimes a chance conversation leads you to discover something cool you’ve not seen before, and before you know it, you’re ordering parts for yet another hardware build. That’s what happened …read more Continue reading Slick Keyboard Built With PCB Magic
We like retro-computing and we like open source standards that allow easy project sharing. Vintage DEC computer enthusiast [Jay Logue] combines both of these in his recent project on GitHub, where …read more Continue reading Flip-Chip KiCad Templates
It’s widely accepted that the invention of the printing press by Gutenberg in the 15th Century was the event that essentially enabled the development of the modern world, allowing access …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Printing Plates Made Using Modern Tools
On October 19th, [Seth_h] from the KiCad Project posted on the KiCad forums that the project’s original domain name kicad-pcb.org has been unexpectedly sold to a third party, and urged …read more Continue reading KiCad Team Releases Warning Regarding Domain Name
What do you get when you cross a day job as a Medical Histopathologist with an interest in 3D printing and programming? You get a fully-baked Open Source microscope, specifically …read more Continue reading Highly Configurable Open Source Microscope Cooked Up In FreeCAD