Hackaday (unofficial) May 5, 2024 3:00am Giving Your KiCad PCB Repository Pretty Pictures #pcbhacks #softwaredevelopment #github #githubactions #gitlab #kicad #kicadintegration #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Giving Your KiCad PCB Repository Pretty Pictures Publishing your boards on GitHub or GitLab is a must, and leads to wonderful outcomes in the hacker world. On their own, however, your board files might have the repo look a bit barren; having a pi…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 23, 2024 9:00am Reverse Engineering the Quansheng Hardware #radiohacks #reverseengineering #bom #collaboration #kicad #lapping #nanovna #pcb #quansheng #uvk5 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Reverse Engineering The Quansheng Hardware In the world of cheap amateur radio transceivers, the Quansheng UV-K5 can’t be beaten for hackability. But pretty much every hack we’ve seen so far focuses on the firmware. What about t…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 15, 2024 12:00pm CATS: A New Communication and Telemetry System #radiohacks #aprs #aprsis #cats #felinet #fm #fsk #kicad #ldpccoding #packetradio #rf4463 #rust #whitening #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 CATS: A New Communication And Telemetry System CATS is a new communication and telemetry standard intended to surpass the current Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) standard by leveraging modern, super-cheap Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) t…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 11, 2024 6:00pm Share Your Projects: KiCad Automations And Pretty Renders #hackadaycolumns #pcbhacks #kicad #kicadintegration #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Share Your Projects: KiCad Automations And Pretty Renders I have a pretty large GitHub repository, with all of my boards open-sourced there. Now, I’m finally facing the major problem it has – it can be uncomfortable for others to work with. I …
Hackaday (unofficial) February 26, 2024 10:00pm KiCad 8 Makes Your Life Better Without Caveats #news #softwarehacks #designtool #eda #kicad #kicadintegration #pcblayout #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 KiCad 8 Makes Your Life Better Without Caveats A few days ago, KiCad 8 was released, and it’s a straight upgrade to any PCB designer’s quality of life. There’s a blog post as usual, and, this year, there’s also a FOSDEM …
Hackaday (unofficial) January 3, 2024 1:00pm From KiCad to Blender for a Stunning Render #art #pcbhacks #softwarehacks #3dcad #blender #kicad #kicadintegration #render #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 From KiCad To Blender For A Stunning Render We love Blender. It brings you 3D modeling, but not in a CAD way — instead, people commonly use it to create animations, movies, games, and even things like VR models. In short, Blender is ab…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 20, 2023 7:00pm Revive A Sony Vaio P-Series With KiCad’s Background Bitmaps #hackadaycolumns #laptopshacks #pcbhacks #reverseengineering #kicad #sonyvaio #sonyvaiop #vaio #vaiop #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Revive A Sony Vaio P-Series With KiCad’s Background Bitmaps You might remember that KiCad 7 came out this February, with a multitude of wonderful features. One of them was particularly exciting to see, and the KiCad newsletter even had an animated GIF to pr…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 13, 2023 8:00pm Vectorscope KiCad Redrawing Project #hackadaycolumns #reverseengineering #2023hackadaysupercon #kicad #pcbdesign #schematics #vectorscope #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Vectorscope KiCad Redrawing Project When I saw this year’s Supercon Vectorscope badge, I decided that I had to build one for myself. Since I couldn’t attend in-person, I immediately got the PCBs and parts on order. Noting that the Gi…
Andro Abhi October 29, 2023 3:07am EcoEDA Integrates Your Junk Bin into Your Designs #parts #bom #design #ewaste #eda #junkbin #kicad #recycle #reuse #salvage #schematic #hackaday -- Delivered by RssEverything service https://hackaday.com/2023/10/28/ecoeda-integrates-your-junk-bin-into-your-designs
Hackaday (unofficial) October 29, 2023 3:00am EcoEDA Integrates Your Junk Bin into Your Designs #parts #bom #design #ewaste #eda #junkbin #kicad #recycle #reuse #salvage #schematic #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 EcoEDA Integrates Your Junk Bin Into Your Designs If you’re like us, there’s a creeping feeling that comes over you when you’re placing an order for parts for your latest project: Don’t I already have most of this stuff? Wi…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 18, 2023 9:00pm Designing a PCB GPS Antenna From Scratch #gpshacks #pcbhacks #badge #circularpolarization #flatcam #gps #kicad #patchantenna #pcb #simulation #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Designing A PCB GPS Antenna From Scratch These days, when it comes to GPS devices the antenna is typically part of the package. But what better opportunity for [Pepijn] to learn how to make a GPS antenna from scratch for a badge add-on? A…
Hackaday (unofficial) October 3, 2023 3:00pm Chip Shortage Engineering: Misusing DIP Packages #attinyhacks #featured #interest #originalart #parts #pcbhacks #skills #attiny85 #dip #dipchip #footprintcreation #kicad #sao #soic #soic8 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Chip Shortage Engineering: Misusing DIP Packages After years of seeing people showing off and trading their badge Simple Add-Ons (SAOs) at Supercon, this year I finally decided to make one myself. Now for a first attempt, it would have been enoug…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 6, 2023 9:00pm Thin Keyboard Fits in Steam Deck Case #peripheralshacks #case #keyboard #kicad #pcb #raspberrypipico #steamdeck #svg #thin #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Thin Keyboard Fits In Steam Deck Case Although some of the first Android-powered smartphones had them and Blackberries were famous for them, physical keyboards on portable electronics like that quickly became a thing of the past. Presu…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 25, 2023 9:00pm Hackaday Prize 2023: Jumperless, The Jumperless Jumperboard #hackadaycolumns #thehackadayprize #toolhacks #2023hackadayprize #ch446q #jumperboard #kicad #led #python #raspberrypipico #solderlessbreadboard #wokwi #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Hackaday Prize 2023: Jumperless, The Jumperless Jumperboard Jumperless is a jumperless breadboard with multicolored LED visualization of signals in real-time. Sounds like magic? This beautifully executed entry to the 2023 Hackaday Prize by [Kevin Santo Capp…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 22, 2023 6:00am Where Did Your PCB Go Wrong? KiRI knows #pcbhacks #softwarehacks #kicad #plotgitsch #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Where Did Your PCB Go Wrong? KiRI Knows When working on a PCB design in KiCad, it’s helpful that the files are all text and can easily be checked into Git or other source control. However, stepping back through the revisions to det…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 11, 2023 7:00pm Hackaday Prize 2023: Circuit Scout Lends a Hand (Or Two) for Troubleshooting #thehackadayprize #toolhacks #2023hackadayprize #cnc #gantry #kicad #pcb #pickandplace #pnp #probe #testing #troubleshooting #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Hackaday Prize 2023: Circuit Scout Lends A Hand (Or Two) For Troubleshooting Troubleshooting a circuit is easy, right? All you need is a couple of hands to hold the probes, another hand to twiddle the knobs, a pair of eyes to look at the schematic, another pair to look at t…
Hackaday (unofficial) August 8, 2023 6:00pm Easyeda2KiCad: Never Draw a Footprint Again #parts #pcbhacks #easyeda #footprintcreation #jlcpcb #kicad #lcsc #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Easyeda2KiCad: Never Draw A Footprint Again What if I told you that you might never need to draw a new footprint again? Such is my friend’s impression of the tool that she’s shown me and I’m about to show you in turn, havin…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 24, 2023 9:00pm Nail, Meet KiCad #pcbhacks #kicad #pcb #repair #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Nail, Meet KiCad You know the old saying. When all you have open is KiCad, everything looks like a PCB. That was certainly true for [Evan], who needed to replace a 2.5D small part recently and turned to PCBs to get…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 5, 2023 6:00pm Importing EAGLE Projects Into KiCad 7, And How To Fix Them #howto #eagle #eda #kicad #migration #pcb #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Importing EAGLE Projects Into KiCad 7, And How To Fix Them Migrating a PCB design from one CAD software package to another is no one’s favorite task. It almost never works cleanly. Often there are missing schematic symbols, scrambled PCB footprints, …
Hackaday (unofficial) April 17, 2023 12:00am Hackaday Links: April 16, 2023 #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #batterycharge #bostondynamics #chatgpt #crime #defamation #kicad #lawsuit #mars #meccano #newyorkcity #nyc #ridesharing #spot #uber #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Hackaday Links: April 16, 2023 The dystopian future you’ve been expecting is here now, at least if you live in New York City, which unveiled a trio of technology solutions to the city’s crime woes this week. Surprisi…