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Browse the same curated open-source boards as the desktop app, plus field notes, practical guides, and design topics.
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Koyomi LVDS HAT
A Raspberry Pi RGB/DPI-to-LVDS display board for driving the Sony VAIO P's 1600 x 768 panel, with compact production variants and a documented solder-mask fix.
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Open-source boards
Same catalog as the desktop app.
Koyomi LVDS HAT
HackRF One
GreatFET One
Black Magic Probe
Bus Pirate
Framework Input Module
Keyboardio Atreus
Ferris keyboard
Precursor
MNT Reform
Adafruit Feather RP2040
SparkFun Pro Micro
Seeed XIAO series
iCEBreaker FPGA
Glasgow Interface Explorer
Fomu
Flipper Zero hardware
OpenMV Cam
Raspberry Pi HATs
Corne keyboard (crkbd)
What's new
Shipped to main.
Desktop 0.3.185
Desktop 0.3.185: Add per-ticket screenshots and publication acceptance notes, plus 7 more changes.
Read update → 02Desktop 0.3.184
Desktop 0.3.184: Add per-ticket screenshots and publication acceptance notes, plus 7 more changes.
Read update → 03Desktop 0.3.182
Desktop 0.3.182: A canvas workspace with Home idea drafts, sketches, artwork and GitHub import, plus contextual board tools and an assistant, plus 5 more changes.
Read update →Field notes
What we are learning.
Which open-source autorouter to use for each KiCad routing job
fastroute routed every whole board in under two seconds but passed 3 of 9 edits. drandyhaas/KiCadRoutingTools handled edits best. No router reliably kept a ground pour.
Read article → 02TraceMaker and the desktop homepage
Weekly public TraceMaker binaries, on-demand router install in the desktop app, and a homepage that leads with the download.
Read article → 03Three PCB autorouters on six KiCad boards: TraceMaker leads
We tested three PCB autorouters on six boards. TraceMaker combined passing routes with low CPU time, including 0.42s versus Freerouting’s 44.37s on a simple repair.
Read article →Browse by topic
Git for hardware Reviewable board history, reproducible releases, and healthy boundaries around generated artifacts: how to use Git for KiCad and PCB projects. → Hardware design A topic hub for versioned electronic design workflows: KiCad project structure, portable libraries, design reviews, and reproducible hardware releases. → PCB manufacturing Release gates, fabrication outputs, assembly data, and lessons from boards that reached production, collected as practical PCB manufacturing guides. → Retro hardware New boards, adapters, and replacement electronics for machines that still deserve to run. →