https://www.baldengineer.com/tag/kiconRecent content in kicon on Bald EngineerHugoen-USThu, 31 Mar 2022 04:01:37 +0000https://www.baldengineer.com/6-things-i-learned-about-kicad-at-kicon-2019.htmlFri, 17 May 2019 18:26:00 +0000https://www.baldengineer.com/?p=7786In April 2019, hardware hackers, hobbyist, and engineers joined together for the first KiCon. A couple of people asked me, “why is there a conference for KiCad?” Some questioned if KiCad was significant enough software to warrant a conference. That question is valid. But KiCon is larger than the KiCad software. Even in its first iteration, KiCon evolved more into a meeting for people building electronics hardware from small scale hobbyist to professionally designed systems, than just a conference on a single piece of software. Some might call it a maker conference. I call it a hardware developer conference. The key that tied everyone together is the open source software behind our printed circuit boards.