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We have a great rela­tion­ship with many open­source projects non more so than KiCad. As such we’d like to take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to high­light that this years KiCon North Amer­i­ca is tak­ing place in a lit­tle over 14 days. This time it’s in San Diego CA in the Qual­comm institute. 

The final itin­er­ary of talks is still to be released, but over on the fedi­verse we’ve seen dis­cus­sion that the excel­lent KiCon­nect FreeCAD work­bench is one of the many excit­ing things to be pre­sent­ed. Cre­at­ed by Mor­gan Allen, KiCon­nect is still in rea­son­ably ear­ly devel­op­ment but promis­es to be fan­tas­tic. It’s great to see such inter­est­ing inter­op­er­abil­i­ty devel­op between FreeCAD and KiCad as well as the already estab­lished StepUp KiCad work­bench. Some­how, along the way the KiCon­nect project real­ly high­lights how inno­v­a­tive open source method­olo­gies can be. 

We’d like to wish the whole KiCAD com­mu­ni­ty well for KiCon and we’ll def­i­nite­ly fea­ture KiCon­nect here on the blog soon. If you can’t wait then a small teas­er overview of KiCon­nect can be seen on Gareth Hal­facree’s Youtube chan­nel below.