On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 4:52 AM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Still, the question arises: are there any affordable alternatives? > Don't have to be entirely free. I am looking for any trends out > there as to what tool will attract a critical mass of users in > the future. There is strength in numbers. > > Disclaimer: the section I lead at CERN has been contributing to KiCad development [1] since 2011. Our main driver is to facilitate sharing and collaboration [2] in the domain of Open Source Hardware. As others have said, there is quite some momentum behind KiCad these days. If you want to give it a quick try, I think Chris Gammell's simple "Getting to blinky" tutorial [3] is a very good place to start. Chris also runs a very lively forum where people can ask questions [4]. KiCad does have its quirks [5] like all other EDA tools, but it's progressing quickly and the developers are quite receptive to constructive criticism. We want to take KiCad beyond the hobbyist realm, and we are especially interested in feedback from people in the designers-we-admire category like you. Cheers, Javier [1] http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cern-kicad/wiki [2] https://giving.web.cern.ch/content/kicad-development-1 [3] https://contextualelectronics.com/learning/getting-to-blinky-4-0/ [4] https://forum.kicad.info/ [5] See e.g. the list we keep at http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cern-kicad/wiki/UI_improvements _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
