All the docs

It’s 2022. You design a synth module in KiCad 6, and you want to document it. So: It’s 2023. February. You design a synth module in KiCad 7, and you want to document it. But now there’s the kicad-cli command. You can use it to export the schematic PDF. You can use it again to […]

Mark down your BOM

KiCad’s pretty powerful and it’s my EDA of choice, but there are weaknesses. One of them is bill of materials (BOM) export. In KiCad’s schematic editor, Eeschema, you can click on the BOM icon and up comes a window where you can select one of several BOM plugins and click the “Generate” button, and it’ll […]

Diseagling

Mutable Instruments is all about open source. Schematic diagrams, board layouts, panel designs, firmware, and so forth for all their Eurorack modules as well as other hardware products may be found on Github. Everything seems to be licensed GPL3.0, MIT license, or cc-by-sa-3.0. One little difficulty: It appears all the schematics and PCB layouts were […]

Got To Blinky

Recently, for reasons I might get to here a little later on, I started thinking about drawing circuit schematics and making PC boards. I did some stuff with the EasyEDA site and I might go back to working with that, I don’t know, but I started feeling like I wanted to try out other options. […]