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by pointhi 2y ago
In the hobby market, KiCad is already really big with >40% market share in some fabs: https://aisler.social/@aislerhq/111806804691963640 And the latest moves from Altium will promote growth in the professional marke
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by pointhi 2y ago
Live synchronization of layout and schematic files is a feature you find in EAGLE, but in almost no other EDA program. If you say KiCAD is not an professional EDA due to missing live synchronization, the same argument applies also to Altium
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by pointhi 3y ago
OSH Park reports 37% of projects uploaded in 2023 were created in KiCad: https://nitter.net/oshpark/status/1749531515103666670 Those numbers are likely biased toward hobby electronic designers located in Europe an
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by pointhi 5y ago
Years ago I also started designing an OSH mouse[1] as there was nothing on the market (in comparison to OSH keyboards). The main problem I encountered was mechanical design, as with 3d-printing it is hard to get a good mouse-wheel with vert
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by pointhi 5y ago
KiCad 7 will get power and signal integrity tools. In fact, there is already a branch with working DC power integrity simulation prototype (current-density/voltage-drop/resistivity) where you only have to specify a board and all p
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by pointhi 5y ago
I'm the creator of the Altium importer in KiCad, and yes, importer development is time consuming but important for people without access to those programs. I even looked into Allegro and reverse-engineered initial bits, but without acc
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by pointhi 6y ago
Looks like a very early version of searx, which is an open source privacy-respecting metasearch engine: https://searx.me/