KiCon Asia 2024

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09:00
09:00
30min
Event Sign-in and opening speech

Event sign-in and warm-up

Main Hall
09:30
09:30
40min
KiCad Status
Wayne Stambaugh

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

Main Hall
Main Hall
10:10
10:10
30min
Huaqiu's KiCad Distribution
Hubert Hu

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

Main Hall
Main Hall
10:40
10:40
20min
Coffee Break
Main Hall
11:00
11:00
40min
Ecological construction of hardware open source community and sharing experience of using ECAD tools
Su Gongyu

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

Main Hall
Main Hall
11:40
11:40
35min
Research on automatic extraction method of component parameters based on AI
Li Ning

Use CV technology to extract key information from component datasheet

Main Hall
Main Hall
12:15
12:15
75min
Lunch
Main Hall
13:30
13:30
40min
XAO to ElmerFEM simulation workflow
Alex Shvartzkop

XAO to ElmerFEM simulation workflow

Main Hall
Main Hall
14:10
14:10
40min
Compressing the KiCad 3d Models
Seth N Hillbrand

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

Main Hall
Main Hall
14:50
14:50
20min
Coffee Break
Main Hall
15:10
15:10
40min
Wuerth KiCad Library Design, Management and Promotion
huang, menglong
  • 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.
Main Hall
Main Hall
15:50
15:50
40min
KiCad Enabling X86 System Interface Expansion Boards
Wang Bo

how to use KiCad to develop X86 system expansion boards.

Main Hall
Main Hall
16:30
16:30
30min
KiCad Developer Roundtable

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

Main Hall
Main Hall
09:00
09:00
40min
ECAD Viewer Development and Integration Insights: A Journey Through the Open Source Community
Ethan Chien

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
Main Hall
Main Hall
09:40
09:40
40min
KiCAD for researchers and entrepreneurs
Bo Gao

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.

Main Hall
Main Hall
10:20
10:20
20min
Coffee Beak
Main Hall
10:40
10:40
40min
Design-Along: draw and submit a KiCad Quality symbol and footprint in KiCad 9
John Beard

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

Main Hall
Main Hall
11:20
11:20
40min
My Development Journey: ODB++
Eric Zhuang

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

Main Hall
Main Hall
12:00
12:00
90min
Lunch
Main Hall
13:30
13:30
40min
Embedded Engineer's Hardware Dream KiCad Experience and Project Sharing(嵌软工程师的硬件梦之KiCad经验和项目分享)
imliubo

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!

Main Hall
Main Hall
14:10
14:10
40min
Live Demo:Migrate from other tools to KiCad
Hubert Hu

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

Main Hall
Main Hall
14:50
14:50
20min
Coffee Break
Main Hall
15:10
15:10
40min
How to file a KiCad issue?
Wayne Stambaugh

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

Main Hall
Main Hall
15:50
15:50
20min
Complaint session; Influence the next version of KiCad

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

Main Hall
Main Hall
16:10
16:10
80min
Workshop:Solder your SAO HAT
Paul Hamilton

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).

Main Hall
Main Hall