KiCad FabLib

Not a full workshop, but if it is not here, it did not happen.

The KiCad Fab electronics library has experienced (and is experiencing) a facelift.

1. One can now intall it via official KiCad Addon Manager
2. It has a release system based on semantic versioning
3. It has nighly build system so one can always go for the absolute latest version.

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Contribute!

Work is ongoing towards ways of seeing what is still missing.

• Scripts that show which symbols are missing footprints
• Scripts that show which footprints are missing 3D models
• Work towards better structure and naming scheme

Please get in touch via project Issues or Mattermost if you want to contribute a 3D model or two. They have to be made in FreeCAD so that anybody could update them later if needed.

Future

Some of the future steps include the following.

• Splitting library into packages, such as the following.
• Resistor_1206 with resistors that are named according to value
  • 10k
  • 49.9k
  • 100k
  • etc...
• Resistor_0603
  • ...
• Input
  • IMU_ST_LSM6DSV16XTR
  • Accel_Analog_ADXL343
  • etc...
• Output
  • ...
• Hello Worlds build into library as Design Blocks or a Design Blocks
• ...