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ANN: Analog Life at Main Fri April 26, 9:30p


Analog Life
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When: 9:30 AM Friday April 26, 2019
Where: Main
KiCon 2019 is a conference for people who use and love KiCad. This is the first year of KiCon, but hopefully the first of many! It will take place April 26th and 27th 2019 in Chicago IL, USA.

We are looking for community members to propose talks, which will be recorded and uploaded for the rest of the world to utilize. We’re looking for stories about tools, methods, and successes using KiCad in manufacturing, research and business. This conference will bring together the power users of the tool to talk about how they use KiCad on a regular basis and to share that knowledge with others.
https://kicad-kicon.com

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1. Welcome To KiCon 2019
Chris Gammell




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2. Schematics: The Heroin Of Electronics Design
Dave Vandenbout

Over time, electronic systems have become more complex with much of their function defined in programmable ICs communicating over time-multiplexed buses. Schematics are spatial representations that can no longer capture the intent of these systems and take too much effort to create. Instead, a programmatic method of describing systems is possible using a small Python library. This method takes advantage of software engineering tools and techniques to quickly create designs that are parameterizable, reusable, testable, and sharable.

Dave Vandenbout is the creator or KiCost, KiField and SKiDL (sounds like "SKITTLES"). Dave formerly ran XESS, an FPGA board company that created accessible designs for people looking to utilize FPGAs in their projects. Dave will be talking about SKiDL and how to replace the graphical component of your design with code.
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3. Version Control And Collaboration On PCB Design Projects
Dmitry Zhgenti

This talk will show you how to use version control to better organize your PCB design process, avoid painful mistakes and launch products faster. Forget about duplicating your files and coming up with naming conventions no one follows. Never lose your design file again, keep the whole team aligned and boost communication. This talk will explain why and how to use the Git version control system, and how to put in place a PCB design review practice using CADLAB's visual tools for KiCad schematics and board layouts.

Dmitry is an entrepreneur and the founder of CADLAB.io, a visual version control system and collaboration platform for PCB design and manufacturing.
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4. Programmatic Generation Of Symbols And Footprints
Blake Ramsdell

Generating symbols and footprints manually from component datasheets can be tedious and error-prone. I will demonstrate using dimensional data combined with a parametric approach and object oriented programming to generate KiCad-compatible component files. New components can easily be created by adding the basic metric information, and then using a programmatic approach to layout.

Blake has been working with electronics since 2010, including five years at Microsoft Surface Products as a Firmware Engineer and Software Development Engineer in Test. His technology background started in software, and he's been improving his hardware skills, most recently through courses in Electronics Technology at the Lake Washington Institute of Technology.
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5. Designing a Smartphone Dev Kit
Eric Kuzmenko

An in-depth look at how an abstract idea of a smartphone dev kit was actualized. Purism's Librem 5 Dev Kit was conceived with the goal of fulfilling a certain set of requires and the intent of being used by software developers to write apps & software for a final GNU/Linux smartphone product. The end result was a very modular design, including the use of an i.MX 8M System-On-Module (SOM), while also being capable of satisfying the basic requirements of a smartphone; designed in KiCad of course.

Eric is a hardware engineer who has been working in the electronics industry just over four years, where at two separate companies he used KiCad on a professional basis. Currently, he is working for Purism, helping them develop a smartphone that will run a complete GNU/Linux OS. Previously, he worked for several different startups, that designed and manufactured consumer and industrial grade 3D printers, probably some you've heard of or used.
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6. Tips For Designing And Teaching Soldering Kits For Beginners
Ben Hibben

Teaching folks to solder is a great way to get them interested in electronics and the Maker Movement, however many cheap soldering kits are not up to the task in practice so you've decided to design your own.  Learn what design considerations you should keep in mind when doing so in order to maximize student success and make your kit easy and fun to do.  We will also discuss tips for teaching groups of students soldering including approaches to safety and technique refined over years.

Blenster has been teaching soldering to beginners for over 8 years. Not satisfied with the variety of existing kits he used at different events, he teamed up with The Hat to start creating kits designed to be easy for beginners to work with. Together they have taught many hundreds of students at dozens of events over the years.
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7. Alternative User Interfaces for KiCad
Kerry Scharfglass

The mouse may have revolutionized user interfaces in the 80's, but since then not much has changed. Our desktop software uses the same tired controls, while mobile devices leap ahead with unusual (and often terrible) new control schemes. No interface method is suited to every task, but maybe there's a magic blend of touch interface and tactile controls that hits a sweet spot for driving KiCad away from the desktop workstation. Come along on my failed journey to see how many knobs it really takes to do electrical CAD.

Kerry Scharfglass is a firmware engineer by trade, who has worked on everything from internet connected door locks to iPhone cases with active jamming capabilities. When the code gets too frustrating he turns to the tool bench to figure out how to use the mill or bodge together projects with KiCad.
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8. MCAD + ECAD For DIN Rail Energy Monitors
Tishampati Dhar

I set-out to build an open-source modular DIN rail energy monitor and launched a project on crowd supply with some renders from MCAD + approximate protoboard builds. Then we spent the next 6-months making it real in KiCAD and following the design set-up in MCAD to squeeze everything into the off-the-shelf casing. We got mostly there and shipped out with only 3-month delay. This talk will describe adventures in electronics as a cottage industry in Australia.

Tisham is a non-practicing Electronics Engineer and almost PhD. He formerly worked in Remote Sensing as a GIS developer but has been an embedded systems enthusiast for a long time. He is currently building the logistics platform of the future in Africa.
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9. Let Your KiCad Project Become Reality
Patrick Franken

Now that the heavy work in KiCad is done you'll probably want to hold the project in your hands as soon as possible. Unfortunately a lot of things have to be organized. This talk will give a deep insight into the different aspects of sourcing your prototypes and small series. From PCB and stencil over parts to the actual assembly.
After this talk you’ll have a fundamental knowledge on how to get your prototype build in the first run.

Patrick is a lead software engineer with a 12 year track record, best selling book author and managing director of AISLER B.V.  As CTO at AISLER, he leads the software engineering team that ships electronic prototypes into more than a 100 countries. He co-authored ""Das Calliope-Buch" which is available to young talents in Germany that want to learn programming even at an early age.
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10. Rendering to Reality
Greg Davill

Utilising MCAD export for realistic renderings.

Greg began tinkering with electronics once he could crawl. He designed his own circuits and firmware for PICAXE controllers in BASIC through primary school and continued to prototype a portable media player for a High School Project. He is passionate about embedded design and microcontroller firmware.
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11. Digi-Key KiCad Library
Reid Landsrud

A short BoF talk on Digi-Key, on how did the library come about,  some challenges we faced, and where we want to go. Then open up to discussion and input from the community.

Reid has been with Digi-Key Electronics for 11 years, where he is a Senior Applications Engineering Technician. He works on various electronics related projects ranging from the Digi-Key KiCad Library to developing miscellaneous electronics prototypes. He is a KiCad convert, over from the big bird.
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12. Why Auto-routers Suck, And How To Use Them Anyway
Craig Bishop

Auto-routers have a widespread reputation for sucking, hard. Have you ever wondered why that is? What math and algorithms does your squishy brain grok that the computer can't? Also, if hypothetically you wanted to dabble in these dark arts, how would you do that from KiCad? We'll learn what the best use-cases for auto-routers are and how to configure them for better results.

Craig Bishop is the founder of Mango Dynamics, a software engineering consulting and EDA company. He has worked on custom EDA software and bespoke auto-routers for semiconductor packaging over the last 8 years. Currently, he is working to overthrow the tyranny of awful auto-routing and design technology, one Steiner-net at a time!  He also blogs random and sometimes mildly useful things at craigjb.com.
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13. Fast 3D Model Creation Using FreeCAD
Anool Mahidharia

Mech CAD integration is becoming increasingly important. Not all components have 3D models available. This talk quickly walks you through creating your own 3D model, aligning it with the KiCAD footprint and exporting STEP/WRL models. Finally, if time permits, a quick introduction to building an enclosure around a KiCAD PCB.

Anool works at Lumetronics designing custom safety test equipment. He's also a co-founder of Wyolum and co-founder of "Maker's Asylum", India's first open community makerspace. He also takes time to write blog posts for Hackaday.
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14. Microwave Design with KiCad
Darrell Harmon

This talk will cover basics of distributed element microwave PCB design and the challenges associated with this in KiCad. Show usage of https://github.com/dlharmon/pyopenems to generate both a PcbNew module and an OpenEMS 3D electromagnetic simulation model based on a single Python based description of the desired geometry. 

Darrell Harmon is the founder of Harmon Instruments and has experience in the RF test and measurement industry. Harmon Instruments is currently developing a VNA and signal generator, where all of the PCBs are designed with KiCad.
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15. Improving Design Outcomes In KiCad With Diversity And Inclusion Principles
Seth Hillbrand

What can diversity and inclusion mean in a critical design environment and how can implementing these principles help us create better circuits?  This talk focuses on the beliefs, values and expectations we have and express to others in our processes.  I provide specific case examples from my work with military and industry systems of my own mistakes and lessons learned. I focus on how I use KiCad and interact with our community to create norms that mitigate similar mistakes in the future.

Seth Hillbrand is the Design Engineer for the physics department of the University of California, Davis.  He designs circuits to support research projects that look for Dark Matter, try to measure "hidden" photons and records physical processes in extreme environments.  Previously, he worked in high altitude ballooning, space science and electromagnetic warfare.  He is currently one of the developers of the KiCad project.
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16. KiCad PCB Design for Rapid Prototyping
Daniel Hienzsch

This talk focuses on what methods to use with KiCad that enable the testing of a circuit with a PCB milling machine. With these tools, you can go from a finished layout to a tested circuit in minutes or hours instead of days or weeks. High current PTH, svelte SMD circuits, crazy edge cuts and internal slots for custom enclosures can all be tested this way. We’ll show examples of various best practices and demonstrate them by milling a circuit featuring SOT and QFP components.

Dan Hienzsch is the founder of Rheingold Heavy, an electronics education and product development company. He's spent 20 years tinkering with electronics, and has done so professionally for the last five of those years. He has created a variety of methods for testing designs as quickly as possible because he screws up a lot.
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17. Avoid Re-Spins! Designing PCBs in the Age of Prototyping ...
Mihir Shah

With PCBs becoming easier to design and order quickly, learning how to design effectively - with the manufacturer in mind - can save you thousands of dollars and weeks in manufacturing and debugging time. Mihir, a former EE at Tesla and Taser, will go over how PCBs are actually fabricated and priced, cost and time-saving design tips, and a little bit about the industry at large (who is building what, who is brokering to who, and the best way to get immediate information on your build status)!

Mihir Shah is the founder and CEO of PCBLayout.com, and Director of Special Projects at Royal Circuits. Formerly an electrical engineeer at Tesla and Taser, he now helps Royal Circuits constantly push the limits of manufacturability, building more complex boards faster and more cost-effectively. In addition, he works with different programs and partnerships that allow Royal Circuits to continue bringing value to its customers and the larger hardware community.
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18. From User to Developer: How to Start Hacking on KiCad
Jon Evans

Are you a KiCad user with some C++ programming experience? Have you ever wanted to fix a bug or add a feature to help you be more productive?  I'll walk you through the process of fixing an example bug from start to finish.  We'll cover the KiCad development process, how to navigate the codebase, how to compile and debug on Linux, and how to submit a patch to the development team.

Jon has been working on KiCad code since 2016 and joined the core developer team in early 2018.  His day job is as an electrical engineer, currently working on 3D printers at Formlabs and previously working on portable analytical instruments. When he occasionally gets a chance to run KiCad instead of writing code for it, he designs LED lighting control electronics for hobby projects.
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19. Effective RF And Microwave Design With KiCad
Seth Hillbrand

Working in the microwave spectrum places a number of unique requirements on PCB layout and design.  This talk shows how to use KiCad to create effective high-frequency circuits.  I will focus on a 300MHz - 3GHz spectrum analysis circuit that I created to search for a type of Dark Matter called Dark Photons.  I will demonstrate effective techniques for designing DRC-compliant curved traces, spline-based zone fills and SolidWorks MCAD integration.

Seth Hillbrand is the Design Engineer for the physics department of the University of California, Davis.  He designs circuits to support research that looks for Dark Matter, tries to measure "hidden" photons and measures physical processes in extreme environments.  Previously, he worked on high altitude ballooning and in electromagnetic warfare.  He is currently one of the developers of the KiCad project.
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20. New Year's Resolution: A KiCad Project
Samuel Rustan

This is presentation is a review of a new project started on New Year’s Day leading up to the conference.  I’d like to know how effective KiCAD can be for a (nearly) complete PCB layout novice.  This talk would be from the perspective of a novice in PCB design, but also from an experienced engineer and tinkerer. How intuitive is the software?  How helpful is the documentation?  How helpful is the collaboration features?  How helpful is it being open source?


Sam is an EE by degree, but has been working with software for the past 4-5 years.  He has worked in jet engine controls and has been working on autonomous systems for the past couple years as well.  Outside of a professional context, Sam is a guitar player and a garage tinkerer of amplifiers, radios, and various electronics.
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21. State Of KiCad - V5.1 And Beyond!
Wayne Stambaugh

The keynote talk will include a brief discussion on the current status of the KiCad project, why KiCad is important, any project announcements and Q&A with the KiCad project leader.

Wayne has been a lead developer for the KiCad project for over 10 years and the project lead developer for the last 5 years.  He is an electronics engineer with over 30 years experience in electronics design.  He has done a little bit of everything during his career including digital, analog, and embedded design.
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22. KiCad Developer Panel At KiCon 2019
KiCad Developers

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23. Cautionary Tales From The History Of Secrecy
Michael Ossmann

Gather round the campfire, children, and listen to spooky stories from
the days of proprietary technology.  Folks back then hoarded inventions
instead of sharing them.  They believed that the value of ideas could be
increased by keeping them secret or by forcibly preventing competitors
from using or improving upon them.  Against great odds humans survived
this dark era.  Today we share their stories so that we may be saved
from repeating their failures.


Michael Ossmann is an engineer and founder of Great Scott Gadgets. They make the RF spectrum more hackable with tools like the Ubertooth One, the Yardstick One and the HackRF. All GSG designs are open source hardware and made with KiCad.
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24. Manufacturer Panel At KiCon 2019
Manufacturers

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25. Your Manufacturer Is Stupid - Help Them
Chris Denney

Manufacturers are really smart actually, but treating them like they're stupid will make your life a lot easier. The more information your manufacturer has up front, the less phone calls you'll get, and the faster you'll get your assemblies back. Learn how you can use KiCAD's built in features to get the job done right the first time and every time.

Chris Denney is the CTO for Worthington Assembly. He has worked in the electronics industry for 18 years and has been a part of all aspects of the design and manufacturing process. He was recently interviewed on the Amp Hour and talked about the future of electronics assembly.
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26. KiCadSharp - A C# wrapper For KiCad
Uriel guy

This will be a talk about a library I published on GitJub, which allows for programmatic creation of PCBs, and for much more to be done after the data is easily available programmatically, such as automatic programing jig creation.
Library is here - https://github.com/UrielGuy/KiCad_sharp


Uriel is mainly a software engineer working for a fortune 500 company. After going to Burning Man, he decided it's time to dive into electronics. KiCad is his tool of choice.
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27. Stacking Up With (Free|Ki)Cad
Morgan Allen

Cacoffiny: 8 PCBs joined together to celebrate the death of our batteries. 

(Free|Ki)CAD (not an endorsement of pronunciation) is the combination of FreeCAD and KiCAD to design 3 dimensional interlocking PCBs. This will lay out my journey from OpenSCAD to Inkscape to FreeCAD in search of a solution. Cacoffiny will be my submission to Hackster.io #BadgeLove, will it succeed? I don't know but it will make for a grand tale and I will talk about tiny desk lamps for Guinea Pigs.

Morgan is on a constant quest to redefine "Full Stack Developer". Presently working for the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, California, where a "full stack" is usually plywood but the job isn't done until there's some circuity or code running within.
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28. Using KiCad And A Neoden 4 Pick-n-Place
Barry Buelow

KiCad produces ouptut files which can be manipulated to be compatible with the Neoden 4. This is mostly a manual process or arranging columns in a .CSV file. There are however, a few things that need to be done right when creating new footprints in order to ensure successful placement.


The machine takes some attention and it isn't for everyone. You can't just load it up and walk away. The most common issues will be presented and there will be a period to answer your questions.

Barry is a retired avionics engineer from Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. During his career, Barry has worked on every Boeing airplane in production, including being part of the team designing the large format LCD display for the 787, and autopilot systems on all models.
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29. The Top 5 Footprint Mistakes That Even Professional Engineers Make
Elizabeth Bustamante

When creating libraries, standards are crucial for maintaining consistency, accuracy, and reliability. Yet, even with rigid standards in place, mistakes inevitably creep into such a detail-oriented process. We’ll explore the top 5 mistakes that even professionals make when creating component libraries and how to prevent these errors on your next designs.

Elizabeth is an electronics engineer and PCB Designer. As the CAD Manager at SnapEDA, she is responsible for leading a team of engineers in the creation of PCB libraries, ensuring that the team is constantly evaluating and improving its quality, processes, and efficiency. Elizabeth holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana.
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30. PCBOps : Applying CI/CD To PCB Design Projects
Andrey Shmakov

CI/CD provides distinct benefits by automating procedural steps of software development and deployment, but these concepts are challenging to adapt to PCB Design due to human intervention during the manufacturing process and limitations of existing tools. We will present a template for end-to-end automation of the PCB Release, review, and asset generation process using KiCAD, as well as further concepts including ERP integration, ordering, purchasing, part EOL, publishing ECN, and QA monitoring.

Andrey Shmakov is an Electrical Engineer and Firmware Developer with a focus on data acquisition, embedded systems, industrial automation, and CI/CD in manufacturing operations. As the electrical engineer at a small industrial device manufacturer, he has experienced many aspects of PCB Design and Manufacturing. In a previous life, Andrey studied Physics and Mathematics at UC Berkeley, where he enjoyed developing embedded devices using KiCAD for his lab and academic work.
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31. Manufacturing The Open Source Desktop Computer
Louisa Bisio

A beautiful and powerful Linux computer manufactured in Denver, CO: Thelio. This desktop features an open-sourced daughterboard that was designed on KiCad. We share why open source hardware is important for an innovative future. We talk about the details around manufacturing a powerful desktop computer from the inital design, to fabrication to the final build, and the lessons we've learned along the way. In the end, we prove that you don’t have to compromise aesthetics, quality, and performance for open source freedom.

Louisa works at System76, a Linux computer manufacturer in Colorado and is a big proponent of open source hardware and software. System76 manufactures an open source desktop-computer from raw materials, and she's going to talk about how they build their machines, and why open source is important.
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32. Tips For Making, Marketing, And Selling Your Hardware With Free Or Open Source Tools
Shawn Hymel

Starting a business or side gig does not have to be difficult! In fact, there are plenty of free (and some open source) tools to help you make your product (KiCad), market it (Blender), and sell it (Tindie). I'll give you some hard lessons I've learned going full-time freelancer and which tools I found most helpful. Spoiler: KiCad is helpful. 

Shawn is a marketing advisor and technical content creator. Formally the SparkFun "bow tie" guy, he helps companies engage with audiences through videos, tutorials, and blog posts. In his free time, he can be spotted fiddling with register bits, avoiding soldering burns, and tearing up the dance floor.
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33. Making PCB Protos In Kenya
Tishampati Dhar

At the end of a 3-month stint in Kenya and I decided to run an experiment in the feasibility of designing and assembling prototype batches of PCB's for an energy monitor ASIC I have been meaning to try out - the CS5490. This is a super low bar for a test run. The IC has very few dependent components and large pin pitch making it ideal of teaching manual SMD soldering. This talk covers the challenges (mostly logistics) of small scale PCB design and assembly in Kenya (the third world in general)

Tisham is a non-practicing Electronics Engineer and almost PhD. He formerly worked in Remote Sensing as a GIS developer but has been an embedded systems enthusiast for a long time. He is currently building the logistics platform of the future in Africa.
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34. Simulating Your KiCad Circuits With Various SPICEs
Stephan Kulov

SPICE (Simulation Program w/ Integrated Circuit Emphasis) has been helping designers predict circuit performance for decades. KiCad offers built-in simulation via its internal engine provided by “ngspice”, a modern extension of the original open-source SPICE program. Additional steps need to be taken to properly set up a KiCad project for simulation. KiCad also has the ability to export its “netlist” for simulation in an external simulator, such as LTspice, if additional features are desired.

Stephan Kulov, typically known as Ste ("STEE"), is an electrical engineer and business owner. In 2014 he co-founded HD Retrovision, a company which designs and manufactures audio/video equipment for retro video games and other retro technologies. His main area of expertise is in analog circuits as well as all kinds of video signals, including both analog and digital (via FPGA). He is well-versed in SPICE circuit simulations, and will be presenting a talk regarding its use within KiCad.
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35. KiCad In Action: A Case Study for Stairwell Lighting
Steve Mayze

Home automation is a popular inspiration for projects for the hobbyist. This talk is a walk through of a long standing project for implementing a stairwell lighting system using a micro controller mounted on a custom board. Along the way, we explore some of the design issues, considerations and how KiCAD played a key(cad) role.

Steve is a software developer, primarily working in Java for a large software company. He has rekindles his interest in electronics through Contextual Electronics and enjoys pursuing projects that bring together both software and hardware. This is usually projects around the house that could use a custom PCB.
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36. Designing With A Decentralized Group
Eduardo Contreras

Brief talk about my experience working with different people around Mexico, designing different products in kicad, reviewing the tools we have used, from version control, communication and about the roles of each designer.

Eduardo is an electronics engineer, passionate about technology development and science.  He is a co-founder of the Electronic Cats company, which has developed a variety of products from educational satellites (Can-Sat's) to embedded systems in the IoT sector.  He is also a collaborator in The Inventor's House hackerspace, one of the firsts hackerspaces in mexico.
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37. Preserving History With KiCad
James Lewis

While documentation exists for 1970's and 1980's calculators and computers, unfortunately they exist in bitmap formats. As I started converting parts of the Apple IIgs schematic to KiCad, I realized something. There are benefits to "preserving" historical schematics in a living, active, and open format. In this talk, I talk about my experiences in converting scanned PDFs into KiCad, the project behind that motivation, and to encourage help from others to preserve history with KiCad.

James, AKA the Bald Engineer, has a background in electrical engineering and is a teacher at heart. You might have read a tutorial on his blog or watched a video on his "AddOhms" YouTube channel. He is also a frequent contributor to Element14 and Hackster.io. As a fan of making things blink, beep, and fly, KiCad is a staple in his electronics toolkit.
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38. From Idea To Production: Using KiCad For Open Source Hardware Design And...
Piotr Esden-Tempski

I will go through the whole process and workflow of how I create, manage and publish my KiCad projects using GitHub. How I put together panels. Generate data for P&P machine assembly that we do in house. And talk about the tricks and workarounds that I have to use to successfully use KiCad. And make a list of all the biggest issues that KiCad should address to make this workflow easier. As well as the main things that were addressed in KiCad that make it my tool of choice.

Piotr Esden-Tempski, is the founder of 1BitSquared and Embedded Systems Engineer and hardware developer with a history developing Open-Source Systems. He is the designer and manufacturer of the 1Bitsy ARM development platform, the Black Magic Probe JTAG/SWD programmer/debugger hardware and the iCEBreaker FPGA development and teaching platform.
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39. Automating Fabrication Outputs With KiCad And Git.
Jesse Vincent

Git is a fantastic version control system. KiCad is my favorite EDA tool. Out of the box, the two don't play too well together. In this talk, I'll explain how I use git for KiCad projects. In particular, I'll talk about how to massage KiCad's files to help git understand what changed between each revision and how to set up visual diffs of your layouts. I'll also show how to build full fabrication output packages with a single command.

Jesse is the cofounder and CTO of Keyboardio. He has been designing keyboards with KiCad for the past four years. In previous lives, he was mostly a software person.
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40. The Python Whisperer Guide
Maciej Suminski

Python scripting interface is a powerful tool that can relieve you from repetitive and tedious tasks. It is also a great method to address issues that are specific to your workflow and are not likely to be solved in the upstream code. In this talk, I will show you how to start your scripting adventure with KiCad by explaining the principles of python scripting and exploring a few examples. Do not be afraid...pythons are not venomous.

Maciej (MAA-ch-eh), widely known as Orson, has been a passionate about computing since his childhood. During the day, he works as a C++ programmer at CERN, but his nights are spent harnessing electrons. Maciej strongly supports both open source and open hardware initiatives, and the combination of the two made him join the KiCad developer's team in 2013. Since then, he has been regularly contributing to the project, perpetually striving to improve KiCad.
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41. Workflow Panel At KiCon 2019
Workflow experts

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42. Closing remarks For KiCon 2019
Chris Gammell

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