AcmeHub4

KiCon 2026 course files

These are the files for the one-day workshop KiCad 10 Professional Workflows. The book is one level up on this drive, and the pre-class checklist is Appendix D of the book.

Copy this folder to your hard disk before the class. Put it in a path with no spaces. Session 8 writes scripts, and a space in the path breaks them.

The stages

Each session starts from its own folder. A stage is the finished design without the work of that session, and without the work of every later session. So stage N+1 is stage N plus the work of session N.

A student who falls behind loses nothing. Open the next stage at the start of the next session.

Open AcmeHub4/AcmeHub4.kicad_pro in the folder for the session.

Each stage folder has its own README.md. That file lists what the stage removes from the finished design. Appendix A of the book gives the same list for all nine stages. It also gives the ERC and DRC counts that each stage holds when you open it.

The other folders

design-source/

The finished design, together with the manufacturing outputs that it produces. The design files here are the same as the design files in stage-09-golden. The Outputs/ folder is the part that stage-09 does not have. It holds the gerbers, the ODB++ archives, the STEP model and the position files. It also holds the bills of materials for the three variants, and the ERC and DRC reports. Session 8 produces these files with kicad-cli, so you can compare your result against them.

course-assets/

The TPS2546 datasheet and the two pin tables for Session 3. tps2546-pins-import.csv is the file that you import. tps2546-pins-reference.csv is the finished table, for a check.

What you need

KiCad 10.0.6. The installers are on the other partitions of this drive. kicad-cli --version must print 10.0.6 before you come to the class.

Stage files that KiCad 10.0 writes do not open in KiCad 9 at all.