These alone, to a large extent, guarantee that KiCad’s development will accelerate, and will continue to in the future. A fund-raising campaign covered the requested amount by 160%, ensuring 600 hours of development towards KiCad version 6. The community is also active in contributing funds to cover development costs. KiCad has a dedicated developer team, supported by contributing organisations such as CERN, the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Arduino LLC, and Digi-Key Electronics. One of those benefits is KiCad’s very active and growing community of users and contributors. While it is true that KiCad is still behind its commercial competitors in specific areas, I believe that the benefits we get from truly free (‘free'’ as ‘free and open source ’ ) software are worth the trade-off in polish and finish. Once thought clunky and barely usable, it is now a solid, reliable CAD application. Since KiCad first appeared in the PCB CAD world in 1992, it has gone through 5 major versions, and evolved into a serious alternative to commercial products. I sincerely hope that through the content I create at Tech Explorations, as many people as possible will be inspired to re-kindle their childhood curiosity, learn, and create amazing things. I create it to help learners learn things that they want to learn.Īt the end of the day, we are all learners, and we learn from each other. I don't create this content to teach "students". This content is the record of my learning. I learn what I am curious about, and I create educational content. I was partly responsible for destroying the creativity of thousands of students, just like mine had been destroyed in the name of being a "proper adult".Īt Tech Explorations, my job is to learn and to create. Even though I was a "career educator", it was only now that I realised how wrong my last 15 years of education had been. With it, I started creating thing, tinkering with components, testing ideas. I became a child again once I got my first Arduino. Growing up, I became an Engineer, only to loose my childish curiosity in the name of pursuing a career. Like most of us, as a child, I was curious, and I learned how things worked by experimenting with them (usually, this meant taking them apart and hoping to not loose any screws as I was putting things back together). Most importantly, I want to help as many people as possible to enjoy their technology education adventures.Īfter a 15 year career as a University Lecturer, I decided to become a Maker, again. My mission is to help people learn electronics, programming, printed circuit board design, and lots more. Why? Because, as I already mentioned, I'm an educator and a Maker, and I have a Mission. I create all the content on the Tech Explorations website. The informations which they provide is not complete in most cases, but are very useful if you want to build KiCad.I am an online educator and Maker, author of Maker Education Revolution, KiCad Like a Pro, and founder at Tech Explorations. This are some links which I used to build KiCad in Mac OS X. References to build your own KiCad in Mac OS X Freeware to little circuits and PCBs (8x10cm). Immature development yet.Įagle - Closed Source. It's possible make a circuit in a virtual protoboard, make the schematic and the PCB. A little harder for begginers.įritzing - Made for beginners or amateurs which don't need advanced resources. Opensource, mature, free and very professional. GEDA - Complete group of EDA programs (schematic, pcb, etc). Conversion and visualization tools, tutorials, library and others. Marquet - Main brazilian reference in KiCad. Repository of community created libraries.
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