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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 promo…

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 li…

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 electron…

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 wit…

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…

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 Alleg…

Looks like a very early version of searx, which is an open source privacy-respecting metasearch engine: https://searx.me/