Hackaday

Open-source Circuit Simulation

For simple circuits, it’s easy enough to grab a breadboard and start putting it together. Breadboards make it easy to check your circuit for mistakes before soldering together a finished product. But ...
EDN

Open-source PCB design tools get major update

KiCad 6.0 open-source EDA software for schematic capture and PCB layout adds hundreds of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. A refreshed user interface makes the visual design language, hotkeys ...
Hackaday

Certification For Open Source Hardware Announced

Today at the Open Hardware Summit in Portland, Alicia Gibb and Michael Weinberg of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) launched the Open Source Hardware Certification program. It’s live, and ...
Geeky Gadgets

Pixel Pump open source PCB pick-and-place machine

If you spend your time creating prototype PCB boards all small production runs you may be interested in a new open source manual PCB pick-and-place machine specifically created for “PCB artisans” say ...
EDN

Mistral’s ARM Cortex-A8-based open-source development board offers low-cost alternative to TI’s AM35x EVM

The CraneBoard from Mistral Solutions is a new low-cost ARM-based development board that offers designers a fully open-source printed circuit board (PCB) and design to reduce development costs.
Electronic Design

Circuits of Chaos: Building Lorenz, Chua, and Rossler Strange Attractors

Chaotic circuits can arise from either computed (using Analog Computers or Digital Computers) solutions to coupled differential equations or from unstable systems/circuits. A new open-source circuit ...