In part one of this KiCad tutorial, I went over how to create a schematic. Part two covered how to make a part from scratch and turn that schematic into a PCB that’s ready to head off to ...

If you make a PCB, eventually you’ll have to make your own part, though, and each tutorial will begin with making a DIP-8 ATtiny85. Everything else on this board is a jellybean part.

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 ...

To preview how the board is going to look, you can open up the 3D viewer in KiCad and rotate your board around. A Cantor PCB with our logo. Photo by Chris Person / The Verge ...

PCBWay's KiCad plugin simplifies the process by automating many of the design tasks, such as generating a bill of materials (BOM), creating a pick-and-place file, and exporting the Gerber files for ...