Show HN: KiCad in the Browser
What we know
KiCad, a PCB EDA suite is now working in a browser, you can try it at the link, there's a demo project or you can bring your own. Firefox is best, Chrome is good, Safari is "working".
The impact
We’re Emergence Engineering, a dev shop from Hungary, mostly working with rich text editors, CRDTs. This project is a ton of fun, ton of learning, ton of improvements over improvements: - I thought there must be ways to emulate the PCB canvas OpenGL code on the web.
The show backdrop
And yes, there are a lot of ways, all of them very buggy
Where this fits in Signal Ledger
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Our show read
We’re Emergence Engineering, a dev shop from Hungary, mostly working with rich text editors, CRDTs. And yes, there are a lot of ways, all of them very buggy.
Source note
Hacker News reporting: https://demo.pcbjam.com/