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I'm baffled that Mouser and Digi-Key haven't put the same effort into a Kicad pluggin to replicate that capability.

• thrtythreeforty 3y ago
  I suspect that the KiCAD userbase is still considered "small potatoes" and not worthy of this kind of development effort. Which is a shame if true. KiCAD is a gem of open source and holds a lot of mindshare with nerds and hackers.
  • sschueller 3y ago
    Isn't Kicad the tool the CERN uses and also actively develops?
    • cybrox 3y ago
      It is. Research and hobby does generally create lower order numbers than industry, though. However, at least DigiKey offers an integration iirc.
    • stephen_g 3y ago
      CERN is big enough that they probably use a bunch of different EDA tools. But yes, they do have people contributing KiCad.
• bombledmonk 3y ago
  You mean like this? https://github.com/Digi-Key/KiCad-Push-to-DigiKey https://github.com/Digi-Key/KiCad-Push-to-DigiKey
• wildzzz 3y ago
  Digikey doesn't give a shit about interfacing with a hobbyist tool. There's no money in it. They'd much rather spend the resources on developing interfaces for their customers that spend 100-1000x more money with them.
  • tverbeure 3y ago
    Digikey has been pretty active on Twitter lately, targeting hobbyists. They're also a platinum level KiCAD sponsor. And they bought the kicad.org domain from a malware squatter and donated it to the KiCAD project.
  • sokoloff 3y ago
    They have several KiCAD specific items that they've spent resources creating. https://github.com/Digi-Key/digikey-kicad-library https://github.com/Digi-Key/digikey-kicad-library https://github.com/Digi-Key/digikey-partner-kicad-library https://github.com/Digi-Key/digikey-partner-kicad-library https://github.com/Digi-Key/KiCad-Push-to-DigiKey https://github.com/Digi-Key/KiCad-Push-to-DigiKey