KiCon Asia 2024

Event sign-in and warm-up

An update of the current state of the KiCad project and insight into future versions.

Introduce the Huaqiu's KiCad Distributiion version. Main features:
1. Temp solution to Microsoft IME issue
2. Dark mode for Windows
3. Integration for HQDFM
4. Support searching and placing component through cloud component library
5. PCB & SMT real time quoting and order
6. Component search and BOM matching plugin

Share the experience on how to construct the open source community "Electronic Forest" and "Yinghe Academy" and the KiCad usage during the whole journey.

Use CV technology to extract key information from component datasheet

XAO to ElmerFEM simulation workflow

Introduces a new method for compressing STEP files that can be used to reduce the KiCad STEP model library by a factor of 5.

• Library management: We are using GitHub repository to store KiCad library and maintenance. Link: https://github.com/WurthElektronik/KiCad-Library
• Footprint Design techniques: We are using some python tools to help us create Footprint and Symbol automatically, to save effort and keep consistence. Refer to KiCad Footprint Generator, we develop some scripts for ourselves.
• KiCad outreach: Our technical marketing team colleagues help promote KiCad library to FAEs and customers. We also try to do some popularities from our side, eg. internal website news and WeChat Official Accounts Platform.

how to use KiCad to develop X86 system expansion boards.

Moderated roundtable discussion with the KiCad developers on the state of the project, future directions and opportunities

Thanks to the open source community, we successfully launched a solution within three man-months that allows users to view electronic design files, including PCBs, schematics, and 3D models, online.

This talk will share our practices within the open source community while enabling you to integrate the solution into your website, covering:

• Containerizing the KiCad development environment and testing KiCad with the latest versions of its dependencies in the Debian unstable distribution
• Setting up GitHub Actions to build and publish the Docker image to GitHub Container Registry and Aliyun Container Registry
• Opening a pull request to an open-source project
• Asking questions and receiving answers from the community

References:

• Online ECAD Viewer
  • The ECAD Viewer project: GitHub Link and Preview
  • The KiCad CLI Docker project : GitHub Link
• KiCad
• kicanvas
• three.js
• Opening a pull request on Github
• three.js forum
• Debian Unstable

This talk will cover my journey on adopting KiCAD, not only for myself, but for my team, my students, and my friends. It will cover the decision making process, the technical details (rebuilding my library collection and adapting to KiCAD's UI logic), and things that I had to but gladly learned (such writing primitive scripts to implement certain features).

On the other hand, the talk covers my workflow for designing something based on FOSS or at least free of charge tools, from theoretical feasibility analysis and simulation using Python, floor planning using LibreOffice, simulation using LTSpice, schematic and PCB CAD works using KiCAD, and finally parasitic extraction using Python and FastHenry.

This talk may take 30 mins or 60 mins, depending on time slot availability. With interactive demonstration, I can stretch it to 60. With slides only, I can squeeze it to 30. I will be bringing my own computer especially if an interactive demonstration is preferred, so an HDMI port is appreciated.

Learn how to create a symbol and a footprint using the current state of the art in KiCad, including submitting it to the library.

Introduce what ODB++；how to do the architecture and design and how to verify the result

分享的主题是作为一名嵌软工程师如何发现KiCad, 并使用KiCad做的一些有趣的项目 ;)
相信每个嵌入式软件工程师都有一个会画PCB的梦, 有了KiCad这款优秀的软件, 可以让嵌软工程师更加容易去实现自己的梦想!

Introduce how to migrate from Altium Designer and EasyEDA to KiCad, including schematic, pcb and libraries.

Share how to file a kicad issue, including where, how and important notes.

Tell us what you dislike about KiCad (succinctly). We'll summarize it live, write it down, and hopefully fix it. Let it all out!

This session will lively help you solder a KiCon asia 2024 SAO HAT. It will be shining on the RP2040 controller board(Every attendee will get one for free).