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Made With KiCad

These are some KiCad designed projects that have been made by users. If you want to be featured along the other showcases on this page please submit a merge request on GitLab if you meet the contributing guidelines for requirements on adding a project!


Librem 5 EXT CON Rigid-Flex Breakout Board

Purism

The EXT CON Rigid-Flex Breakout Board is a small board that connects to the FPC connector J10 on the Librem 5 while the rigid section mounts inside of the phone using the center M.2 cover-plate threaded insert. The breakout board provides UART, I2C, SPI, two GPIOs, 3.3V, and 1.8V; making it really useful for custom projects, as demonstrated in this blog post.

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Memtype

www.area0x33.com

Memtype project is an open source solution to store your passwords in a tiny USB form factor device to have them available everywhere.

The device is based on the Atmel attiny85 device and use V-USB software based solution to have USB communications.

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Micropendous

Opendous Inc.

The Micropendous boards were Development Boards for Atmel’s USB AVR Microcontrollers with a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) hardware, firmware, and software development platform. They were designed for USB peripheral and hosting development.

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MNT Reform

MNT Research GmbH

The MNT Reform is a modular laptop launched in 2020 featuring 7 open hardware PCBs made with KiCAD: motherboard (SoM carrier for Boundary Devices Nitrogen8M_SOM), mechanical keyboard, OLED, optical trackball, trackball sensor, trackpad, battery pack. STEP files for the CNC milled case and STL files for the 3D-printable parts are available as well. The goals of the project are to increase ownership, transparency, repairability and privacy of mobile computers.

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Mooltipass

Mathieu Stephan

An offline password keeper project created by and for the Hackaday community.

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MultiAdaptor

Opendous Inc.

This adaptor has multiple overlapping footprints for any occasion: up to 28 pin SOIC/SO (1.27mm pitch), up to 28-pin SSOP/TSSOP (0.65mm pitch), up to four SOT23, up to three SC70, one MSOP-10 (0.5mm pitch), one SOT223, and one SOT-143. All in a 0.8" wide DIP board. The header pins are staggered to allow press-fitting them while soldering.

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NUCLEO2USB

Dmitry Filimonchuk

NUCLEO2USB is the USBFS shield for the NUCLEO-64© compatible development boards. It can be configured as 1xDEVFS with speed override (F103/F303), 1xOTGFS, 2xOTGFS.

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NUCO-V

Dmitry Filimonchuk

NUCO-V is a NUCLEO-64© compatible development board for the STM32F7 and STM32H7 series with integrated Black Magic Probe

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Open Smartwatch

pauls_3d_things

Open Smartwatch is a completely open (ECAD/MCAD and software) smart watch. The goal is to build an open source smartwatch, with gps tracking and maps. Features include: ESP32, GPS, Time, MEMS sensors, Li-ion battery, USB serial and microSD card storage.

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Open Source POV Display using ESP32

Jobit Joseph

An open source POV display with 128 pixels resoultion and a maximum frame rate of 20FPS. This display is capable of displaying images as well as animation. The display is built around the ESP32 SoC, and used 74HC595 shift registers for controlling each pixels. We have also created a web tool, which will convert each image into a an array that only need approximately 2Kb of code space for each image. This makes it so that it can be easly integrate multiple number of images into the code without worrying about storage limitation.

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