Today marks the release of SKiDL version 2.2.3 because 2.2.2 had a problem with circular imports that showed up under Windows. Thanks to ashergarland for reporting this and providing a fix!

See SKiDL's complete history for all the changes made in each release.

Today marks the release of SKiDL version 2.2.2. This release adds the ability to generate schematics for recent versions of KiCad (6, 7, 8 and 9). Thanks to Github users lachlanfysh and cyberhuman for their work on this.

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Today marks the release of SKiDL version 2.2.1. This release fixes a few bugs to get ready for the new year.

Here are the changes in 2.2.1:

• Pin aliases are now updated after pin deletion, renaming, renumbering, and swapping.
• Footprint search paths for each version of …

Today marks the release of SKiDL version 2.2.0. The increment in the minor version number indicates that this release includes new features and improvements while maintaining backward compatibility with version 2.1.

Here are the changes in 2.2.0:

• The skidl-part-search command-line utility has been added for …

A cheatsheet for SKiDL 2.1.0 is now available. Print it out, laminate it, and keep it handy for all your SKiDL coding needs!

Today marks the release of SKiDL version 2.1.0. The increment in the minor version number indicates that this release includes new features and improvements while maintaining backward compatibility with version 2.0.0.

Here are the changes in 2.1.0:

• netlist_to_skidl now generates hierarchical SKiDL code that …

After three years since version 1.0, today marks the release of SKiDL version 2.0.0. The increment in the major version number indicates that this release is not backward compatible with previous versions, so some SKiDL code may not work if:

1. It relies on Python 2 (which is …

You can finally generate editable schematics from your SKiDL code.

It's been nearly two years since the last release. The 1.2.0 release has these user-facing changes:

• Something that has been requested for years: SKiDL can now generate an editable schematic from a Circuit object. (Currently only works for KiCad V5.)
• The Group object allows you to create hierarchy …

ChatGPT was released late last year, and GPT4 dropped last week. These large language models (LLMs) offer some intriguing possibilities. I had a Twitter conversation about them with @alexandrosM that started like this:

So I described the simplest thing I could think of - a voltage divider - and asked ChatGPT to …