Comment by downrightmike
Comment by downrightmike 2 days ago
Any circuit designers? looking to hobby, but what I saw was all proprietary
Comment by downrightmike 2 days ago
Any circuit designers? looking to hobby, but what I saw was all proprietary
KiCAD has pretty awful UX though. I've tried all of the FOSS PCB design apps except LibrePCB (on my to-do list) and Horizon EDA is definitely the one I'd recommend (even though it also has a fair amount of UX oddities it's much better than KiCAD).
DesignSpark PCB is also decent - only minor UX mistakes like warping the mouse when you zoom.
KiCAD has pretty awful UX though
It's not perfect but it's pretty damn good these days. By EE standards it's positively awesome. Single platform vendor toolchain hell is why people leave commercial software and move to KiCad, which runs everywhere, is open source, and has a plugin architecture plus mostly every feature you could ever need except high end simulation (which just needs time).
Creating PCBs is surprisingly straightforward and there are a ton of good resources available.
It’s probably one of the few area of YouTube that is actually still useful. Probably a high enough barrier to entry to stop most slop.
You mean like PCBs? KiCad is pretty popular.