Microbuck

PCB designs

A monorepository of my PCB designs created with KiCAD 8.

Layout and Workflow

Custom symbols and footprints are located in libraries, which is shared between PCB projects using ${KIPRJMOD}.

Individual PCB projects (e.g. *.kicad_pro and friends) are located within within pcb for active projects, or pcb-archived for archived projects.

When a PCB is ordered from a project, fabrication outputs are created and in the project's fab subdirectory and committed to the repository.

Setup

Ensure pipx is installed:

pip install pipx

Install scons:

pipx install scons

Install KiCAD-related dependencies using the system site packages directory:

pipx install --system-site-packages kikit interactivehtmlbom

Build

To render all outputs, simply run scons.

To render outputs for a particular board, run scons -u within that board's project subdirectory.

Licenses

Individual hardware designs in this repository may use different licenses. The following licenses apply unless an included design directory specifies different license(s).

• Hardware materials and designs are licensed under CERN Open Hardware License version 2.0 Permissive (CERN-OHL-P v2) (text). The version control history of this repository serves as the changes file.
• Software is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0) (text)
• All documentation is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC-BY-SA-4.0) (text)

The lcsc KiCAD symbols, footprints, and 3D models libraries were created using easyeda2kicad (pypi), which are from LCSC. More info about easyeda2kicad