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Introduction to LibrePCB A new, powerful and intuitive EDA tool for everyone

FOSDEM · talk · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

Urban Bruhin, LibrePCB's main author, introduces the open-source EDA tool at FOSDEM 2018. He explains why he started it and how its library concepts differ from KiCAD.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Linked by the author and others in LibrePCB threads as the best explanation of its design rationale.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “You should take a look at my talk at FOSDEM”

    Explains LibrePCB's new library management concepts

    dbrgn, 2018-10 · Recommendation · in “LibrePCB: First release candidate”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: librepcb, eda, kicad, open source, fosdem

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