Welcome, Jon Evans of the KiCad project!Jon Evans is a longtime developer on the KiCad project and practicing EE at Formlabs. He joins Chris to talk about the future of KiCad, including features that are coming in V6.Show Notes

0:00 Introduction2:15 Making changes to the platform4:00 History of the codebase - Chat with the KiCad team about V6 and beyond5:05 Jon's work background - Jon works for Formlabs8:20 What is coming in KiCad v6?10:45 Working with legacy code in KiCad13:30 Looking at an example project14:50 Schematic editor18:50 Changes to the schematic UI21:00 Layout tool22:45 Changes to the layout UI24:10 The split of beginner vs advanced users25:55 The benefits of an open source tool26:25 Comparison to tools that are cloud based27:45 The KiCad ecosystem30:45 KiCad Professional Services32:00 KiCon 202133:10 What is DRC? How is it changing?37:40 The challenges of live DRC40:15 Example of DRC46:05 New python API48:30 Example project for using python scripting with KiCad50:00 How the KiCad project works with feature requests52:15 Working with the console inside KiCad53:55 What else is Jon excited about in V6?56:20 KiCad as a professional tool?1:00:05 Following Jon online1:02:10 Conclusion

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