The recording of my talk about KiVar held at KiCon Europe 2024 is now available.
The talk provides an insight into the features offered by KiVar and how managing variants can be fun. It also contains a few examples and a very short tutorial to give you an impression of the workflow.
Thanks to the KiCad main developers team and to Open Skunkforce e.V. for three great days in Bochum. See you again in 2025!
My first KiCad Action Plugin was just released: KiVar allows for simple selection of PCB assembly variants.
Variation values and attributes (such as DNP) are defined using simple rules noted in symbol or footprint fields. That is, the variation data is fully contained in the schematic or board, respectively, and no external configuration is required outside the native KiCad design files.
I must admit I seem to have underestimated the loyalty of my AVR Fuse Calculator users.
Just a few days after I relaunched my site, clearing any tracks of the past, a user named Alan politely asked if I could get my famous AVR Fuse Calculator back online. He also pointed out that the tool AVRDUDESS contains a link to my site, which was obviously non-functional for the last few days.
So, my apologies for that temporary degradation, and now let’s welcome the good old AVR Fuse Calculator, embedded in my new blog site. It’s the same backend with a little restyling.
Contact me if you find any new usability issues, but please be aware that I do not have the time to fix any AVR part database issues.
And thank you, Alan, for your kind inquiry.
Hi there!
Welcome to my new blog at engbedded.com. If you came here looking for my private website markh.de, then yeah, welcome too! Both sites have been merged into this new blog site.
Whenever I’ll get the feeling that someone could benefit from my experience, I might write an article about it.
Expect some stuff about KiCad, hardware engineering, single-board computers, Linux and so on.
Hope you enjoy!
Mark