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A topic hub for versioned electronic design workflows: KiCad project structure, portable libraries, design reviews, and reproducible hardware releases.

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Follow the path from a pencil sketch through PCB source, rendered previews, checks, and manufacturing outputs. The initial scaffold establishes boundaries for each stage without pretending the future processor pipeline exists today.

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