Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
KiBot
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UPDATED -- Review Request - ESP32-based board monitoring 24VAC w/ I2C, 1wire
My CICD is done with KiBot - https://github.com/INTI-CMNB/KiBot and my pipeline templates are https://github.com/gcormier/kicad-jobs
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Kicad Vault - A Component Management System
Not exactly the same you suggested, but many of those points are already covered by KiBot. You might want to take a look at it: Kibot
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KiCad Project Makefile
One of the features that peaked my interest with the release of 7.0 was kicad-cli. I've wanted a built in tool for CI/CD for a while. I know there is Kibot but to be honest, I found the base configuration a little overwhelming and also struggled to get it running locally on a macOS setup - without tainting system Python.
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KiCad Version 7.0.0 Released
KiBot [0] is super handy for this, the documentation has an explicit section on CI/CD usage.
It's a bit clunky (not KiBots fault at all, it has to basically script drive the GUI to achieve some functionality which has now been added to the kicad cli) so hopefully going forward CI/CD with KiCad will be even easier!
0: https://github.com/INTI-CMNB/KiBot
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The tooling ecosystem that adds joy to KiCad
I'm using KiBot for this, see pcb_replace/sch_replace options here: https://github.com/INTI-CMNB/KiBot#supported-preflight-optio...
- KiBot release - now supports KiCad v6!
- Fritzing is an open-source electronic design too
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KiCad 6.0.0
I've been bitten by the DRC before, but KiBot[0] renders that moot. I have it running as a pre-commit hook, and it generates my Gerbers and everything. That way, all this stuff is automated and I can't make a mistake.
Check out my project's config:
https://gitlab.com/stavros/esp32-cnc/-/blob/master/project.k...
[0]: https://github.com/INTI-CMNB/KiBot#introduction
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Kicad Helper Workflow
This mainly uses the KiBot action (https://github.com/INTI-CMNB/KiBot)
code
- Equivalent of EAGLE "devices" libraries in KiCad?
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Dark UI / Dark Mode
How do i enable the UI to be dark like in this post https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/3923
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Can someone review my schematic and PCB?
For point 1, are you sure you're using the latest KiCad version? I know there was a bug in de software before, which caused this exact problem. But that's already from a long time ago: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/6447
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KiCad Project Makefile
The first thing of thought of with kicad-cli is a Makefile include. It's developed into kicad-makefile. It does everything I want, except DRC/ERC but hopefully that will come. Perhaps others on here will find it useful and can contribute. See the README for info on how to use it and integrate with GitHub actions.
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Python errors with 7
Not sure if the devs watch these forums, but if you want this issue solved I recommend raising the issue on Gitlab https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues (where the devs will definately see your bug report)
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KidCad 7 won't snap to objects on non-active layer
There's an open feature request for an explicit multi-layer snap mode: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/6266
- A little bit offtopic kicad7 released
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Kicad 7 released
- https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/4084
- KiCad 6.0.11 was just tagged in the source repo. Expect a new bugfix-release in a day or two!
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Just a simple plugin to create rounded rectangles
If you're really using the nightly build, you might not need that plugin. https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/4742 seems to have a patch for that already. However it's targeted at kicad 8.0
What are some alternatives?
kicad-test - A test of the KiCad GitHub Action
LimeSDR-USB - USB 3.0 version of the LimeSDR board
fritzing-app - Fritzing desktop application
altium2kicad - Altium to KiCad converter for PCB and schematics
horizon - Horizon is a free EDA package
Apache Maven - Apache Maven core
esp32-cnc
kicad-makefile - A Makefile for KiCad 7.0+ projects. It leverages the new `kicad-cli` command included in 7.0 to generate output data for distribution and production.
pcb-tools - Tools to work with PCB data (Gerber, Excellon, NC files) using Python.
KiBuzzard
kicad_auto - Docker image for KiCad automation scripts suitable for CI/CD
Fillet_Rectangles_KiCAD - A simple KiCAD plugin to create rounded corners for PCBs.