After a successful first year of KiCon in 2019 in Chicago, it will change venues to CERN, a major contributor to the KiCad project! KiCon 2020: A KiCad conference at CERN, September 11th-13th, 2020 More details soon! If you’re interested in being involved, the following email addresses can be used to contact the right people about this event: Sponsorship: sponsors@kicad-kicon.com Media: media@kicad-kicon.com

​Join us for the Open Hardware Summit on March 13th in New York City! It will be the 10th anniversary and Sophi Kravitz will be giving a keynote. More speakers will be announced soon. Tickets are on sale now!

Thanks to Anool Mahidharia for posting on Hackaday about KiCad plugins. I decided to try out the Teardrop plugin by NilujePerchut:

Jacob Creedon designed an a cartridge board that adds 32MB of SDRAM to the Hackaday Supercon badge. Michael Welling just assembled a version of the PCB made with the OSH Park “After Dark” black FR-4 service:

Kevin Neubauer has designed a System-on-Module (SoM) to run Circuit Python: CircuitBrains Deluxe I love Adafruit’s CircuitPython product line. The ability to just plug your board into USB, make code changes, and see them take effect in real-time is amazing. However, when it comes to finishing up a CircuitPython project, I felt…

Chris Gammell writes on the Contextual Electronics about the first ever user focused KiCad conference, which is happening April 26th and 27th 2019 in Chicago (USA): KiCon 2019 As you may know, KiCad is a very big part of CE. We use it in every design we showcase on the CE site…

Shared project by Rob Rehr (@mediumrehr) to connect Wii controllers to #badgelife add-on header:

All the Open Hardware Summit 2018 talks are now available as individual videos on YouTube

The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) 2018–2020 Board Nominations are now open OSHWA is looking for 6 new faces to join the board of directors for the Open Source Hardware Association. The nominee form is for self-nominations only. Please fill out the nominee form (deactivated Nov. 4th) to become a nominee or forward the link to someone you want to nominate. Do…