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1: How To Design PCB in EasyEDA : Introduction
EasyEDA simplifies PCB design with cloud-based accessibility, collaborative tools, and a user-friendly interface. Usually, professional CAD software needs beefy computers, or at least decent hardware, to run most of its features. But in recent years, cloud-based tools have become very ...
How To Use KiCAD’s Footprint Assignment Tool
In the last aritcle, we discussed various factors on how to select the right footprint for your components. Now, we’ll discuss how we can assign the footprint to the components using the KiCad’s footprint assignment tool. Footprint Assignment Tool Here ...
How To Prettify Your Schematic with Kicad 7.0
In the previous article, we made an average looking circuit using the schematic editor by using the bare minimum tools that KiCAD has to offer. In this article, we’ll discuss more interesting tools and make the same schematic more presentable. ...
How To Design a Circuit in KiCAD’s Schematic Editor
KiCAD is such an incredible software which is completely free! But those who are just getting started might get overwhelmed by the amount of options and settings it has to offer. So learning each tool without real world examples would ...
How To Use New Kicad User Interface
In the previous article we talk about what is KiCad and some of the tools it has to offer. In this article, we’ll try to explore more about KiCad, specially how to navigate around KiCad and how some of its tools ...
GitHub For Hardware Engineer But Better: CADLAB.IO
Working on the PCB designing software can be tedious if you want repetitive updates, modifications, while simultaneously sharing the project with your teammates or your manufacturer. Is there a way to version control your PCB designs and collaborate with teammates ...
Introduction On How To Use Latest KiCad
It has just been a year since KiCad version 6.0 was launched and KiCad has already launched their version 7.0.0. on February, 2023. KiCad 7.0 comes with great new upgrades like orthogonal dragging, drag and drop, command line interface, text ...
Make Your Valentine’s a Christmas with KiCad 7.0!
Release of New Version: KiCad 7.0.0. While the KiCad 6 version was brought at the end of December 2019 and had many upgrades, this version of KiCad is filled with treasure troves for you. It comes with a number of ...
Single or Multi-Layer PCB: How to Choose?
Printed Circuit Boards made the break-through because of their miniature size and compact design platforming all the required electronic components. However, depending on the applicability the PCB can be made into multi-layered stacked one on top of another. This makes ...