A few years ago, I wrote a few columns titled Making A Thing. These columns were a tutorial of sorts for several different 3D modeling programs. This column wasn’t meant to be a complete guide to ...

Have you ever looked at a small development board like an Arduino or an ESP8266 board and thought you’d like one with just a few different features? Well, [Kai] has put out a fantastic guide on how to ...

Promoted content: PCBWay, a leading manufacturer and assembler of high-quality printed circuit boards (PCBs), is proud to announce its latest innovation - the KiCad plugin. This plugin is designed to ...

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 GBR file is a type of file used to store printed circuit board (PCB) design data. It is an open, ASCII, vector format that is supported by most PCB design software. GBR files contain information ...

Despite increasing levels of semiconductor integration and readily available systems-on-chips for many applications, in addition to the increasing availability of highly-featured development boards, ...

The official Raspberry Pi Ltd. is helping the KiCad open source design automation software raise funds in its end of year event by matching donations made on the KiCad’s website up to a maximum of ...

I’ve been an EagleCAD user for 20 years now—more than half the product’s 36-year lifespan. I’ve used EagleCAD as a hobbyist, a maker, a design-for-manufacturing (DFM) blogger, and a small robot ...

This is the first of several articles in the PCB Design Best Practices series, which discusses the different steps of PCB development from the basics of creating a design schematic with specific ...