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 also a FOSDEM talk from [Wayne Stambaugh] ...

One barrier for those wanting to switch over from Eagle to KiCad has been the lack of a way to convert existing projects from one to the other. An Eagle to KiCad ULP exists, but it only converts the ...

There's a certain delight to be had in doing something just to see if you can. Case in point: rendering Doom using PCB design software, or wading through the shores of Hell via the medium of an ...

Tired of making countless wire jumpers on my perfboard prototypes, I decided to run an experiment to try to minimize manual ...

I’ve been an EagleCAD user for 20 years now—more than half the product’s 36-year lifespan. I’ve used EagleCAD as a hobbyist, a maker, a design-for-manufacturing (DFM) blogger, and a small robot ...

Always glad to feature a Raspberry Pi book on Gadget Master so here's Design an RP2040 board with KiCad KiCad is open source PCB design software and the RP2040 is the chip that’s at the heart of the ...

The 1st prize of the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) is awarded to a team of eight researchers from the TU Ilmenau and the IMMS Institute for Microelectronic and Mechatronic ...