Over the last few years, the options for designing your own custom electronics have been getting slim. Many paid products are shutting down, raising prices, or being consolidated into unattractive and expensive packages. Through all this KiCAD has been getting better and coming into its own through the latest stable releases.
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CircuitPython is already one of the most straightforward ways to get started with embedded systems for people with a wide range of software experience. FPGA have largely been out of reach for many due to the physical tools required to program them. IcePython provides a straightforward API for quickly loading bitstreams onto iCE40 FPGA!
Following the "Great Part Shortage of 2022," I had shut down Oak Dev Tech because things were getting so expensive to acquire that it didn't make sense to keep going. At least for that time it seemed true. With things improving with the parts availability, we're confident that we can get things going in a better direction this time. 2022 was hard in a lot of aspects, though we are very optimistic moving forward. Nature is healing as they say.
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AuthorsSeth is embedded software engineer and open source hardware developer. Archives
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