CERN Releases Open-Source KiCad Component Library with 17,000 Parts
https://www.electronics-lab.com/cern-releases-open-source-kicad-component-library-with-17000-parts/
Hardware developers can now access CERN’s free KiCad component library with 17,000 verified PCB symbols and footprints for KiCad 9.x.
Implement USB Gadgets on Linux Easily with Sebastian’s New Rust Library
https://www.electronics-lab.com/implement-usb-gadgets-on-linux-easily-with-sebastians-new-rust-library/
Rust developers looking for easier ways to turn a Raspberry Pi 4 into a Rust-powered USB gadget now have a powerful tool at their reach. Developer Sebastian Urban has released details on his new Rust library for USB gadget development on Linux. Sebastian, who claimed to have been working on this project for a while […]
JPEGDEC is a Faster JPEG Arduino Library Designed for 32-bit MCUs
https://www.electronics-lab.com/jpegdec-is-a-faster-jpeg-arduino-library-designed-for-32-bit-mcus/
For most firmware developers and hobbyists, who have had to write firmware for projects that involve displaying JPEGs on an LCD with an Arduino, one thing that quickly comes to mind is the bulkiness of the libraries and the slow speed at which the images are displayed. While the speed is usually due to the […]
Arduino library to draw text and graphics on BLE Thermal Printers
https://www.electronics-lab.com/arduino-library-to-draw-text-and-graphics-on-ble-thermal-printers/
BitBank Software, Inc., written by Larry Bank, bitbank@pobox.com This Arduino library allows you to easily generate text and graphics and send them to a BLE thermal printer. Since there are many different BLE APIs depending on the board manufacturer, I decided to support the more popular ones – ESP32 and Arduino (Nano BLE 33). The […]
Digi-Key announces supplier-driven KiCad Library
https://www.electronics-lab.com/digi-key-announces-supplier-driven-kicad-library/
Digi-Key Electronics has announced the release of a new secondary KiCad library, known as the Digi-Key Partner Library, on GitHub. This is intended to be a supplement to the existing Digi-Key KiCad library released last year. Whereas the previous library was developed and curated by Digi-Key’s Applications Engineering team, the Partner Library was created to […]
Colour Graphics Library for SD1331 OLED display
https://www.electronics-lab.com/colour-graphics-library-sd1331-oled-display/
David Johnson-Davies published a new project. It is a library for SD1331 OLED display module that can even run on ATtiny85 mcu. This is a small color graphics library for an SPI 96×64 colour OLED display based on an SD1331. It allows you to plot points, lines, filled and open rectangles, and text with small […]
Export Eagle Libraries With SnapEDA
https://www.electronics-lab.com/export-eagle-libraries-snapeda/
Although the new Eagle subscription model by Autodesk will bring much-needed features to the software, many users after the announcement had decided to move their work to other alternatives, such as KiCad, Altium, Cadence, etc. One of the challenges was to convert the libraries made by Eagle to be compatible with other software programs. SnapEDA solved that […]
Eagle Tutorial – How to add a new package to a component
https://www.electronics-lab.com/eagle-tutorial-add-new-package-component/
Save time by re-using existing packages and symbols . There are thousands of devices in the ‘default’ library that comes with EagleCAD but whaddyaknow, the exact package/device you need isn’t always going to be one of those thousands. However, instead of making a brand new device from scratch every time you can often ‘merge’ two […]
octopart.com – Common Parts Library
https://www.electronics-lab.com/octopart-com-common-parts-library/
octopart.com just launched the latest Common Parts Library – it comes with integration with Seeed Studio’s Open Parts Library and a downloadable symbols and footprints library in KiCad, Eagle and Altium. Today, we are announcing a new version of the Common Parts Library for Production. Continuing on the journey to make it easy to design […]
Copy parts between libraries in Eagle
https://www.electronics-lab.com/copy-parts-libraries-eagle/
This is a short tutorial on how to copy parts from one library of Eagle to the other. Copy parts between libraries in Eagle – [Link]