An odd board (piezo coupler), fabbed by OSHPark. Recently I’ve been getting curious about interesting PCB shapes. In the past I’ve always used simple Polygons, perhaps rounding out the corners to make ...

KiCAD has been making leaps and bounds recently, especially since CERN is using it almost exclusively. However, while many things are the same, just enough of them are different from our regular CAD ...

KiCAD (pronounced ‘keycad’) is a capable open-source pcb layout tool, which recently reached version 6. I have been trying to use the software, and feel stuck an ‘just muddling thorough’. In search of ...

A while back I wrote about some Open-Source Electrical Engineering Design tools. Several of you chimed in to add some even more highly useful tool ideas. The short summary of the blog is that some ...