#CERN has officially open-sourced its #KiCad #electronics library comprising more than 17,000 components & related design resources:
gitlab.com/ohwr/cern-ki...

#OpenSource #lab #instruments #DIYbio #DIY #MINT #STEM #hackerspace #education

New course: design a 64 GB USB thumb drive in KiCad 10.

Covers BGA fanout at 0.5 mm pitch, USB differential pair routing, eMMC signal integrity, and a 4-layer stackup.

30% off until Sunday 24 May.

txplo.re/smartusb

#KiCad #PCBdesign

Realistically speaking, I don't want or need #KiCad to be that fucking paranoid about the date/time stamps on my filesystem. I, like millions of other people, find value from working out of a cloud synced filesystem.

OTOH, it would also be cool if a fully integrated cloud sync provider like […]

I've been working on a stripped down rust fork of the PCB Autorouter, Freerouting, using Claude.

On a corpus of 600+ PCBs the current stats are looking ok

* ~7–36× faster
* ~90× less memory
* cleaner boards ~2× as often
* ~12× fewer DRC violations

#electroincs #Claude #AI #KiCAD #rust

KiCad parts を LCSC からいただく easyeda2kicad の活用法

#KiCad #LCSC #EasyEDA #footprint #Parts