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• @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com 2026-09-26 13:07

  @reimu@mk.fumo.pictures @tyler@nicecrew.digital Yes. KiCad is straightforward provided you have a strong GNU/Mind. You start with the circuit design (which is a pain in the ass and can be skipped for simple designs where you're making a passive connector for example), then you lay out the pcb, add the edge cuts and put some nice labels and artwork on top and then run the Design Rules Check (and fix the actual issues and ignore the bloat ones). For any clocks below 24 MHz (like moderate speed SPI), you usually don't need to worry about impedance, decoupling and crosstalk at all - many electronic circuits cycle at 50kHz at most. Above 24MHz, proprietary physics starts biting - even 100MHz is bad, let alone 1GHz. What kind of circuit do you want to design?

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