An odd board (piezo coupler), fabbed by OSHPark. Recently I’ve been getting curious about interesting PCB shapes. In the past I’ve always used simple Polygons, perhaps rounding out the corners to make ...

There are many, many video tutorials about designing the functional side of PCBs, giving you tips on schematic construction, and layout tips. What is a little harder to find are tutorials on the ...

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 while back I wrote about some Open-Source Electrical Engineering Design tools. Several of you chimed in to add some even more highly useful tool ideas. The short summary of the blog is that some ...