Description
Making a board used to mean learning KiCad first: draw the schematic, place parts, route traces, and a simple LiPo charger can eat an evening. With heypcb you describe it in plain words, for example USB-C in, a TP4056, a red and a green LED and a JST battery plug, and it designs the schematic, layout and fabrication files as real KiCad files you can download and keep editing elsewhere.
It runs in the browser, is free to start and needs no credit card. You can also bring an existing KiCad design to be checked, and Circuit World, a library of more than eleven thousand published open hardware boards, lets you start from something someone already built.
Chat to board: describe the machine and the Inky assistant produces the schematic, PCB layout and fab files, then keeps refining as you talk.
KiCad files you keep: the output is a standard KiCad project, so you are not locked in.
Open and check designs: load an existing KiCad file, browse schematic, board and 3D views, and have the AI review it.
Real time collaboration: several people draw, route and place parts on the same board, see each other's pointers and can follow one another across pages.
Enclosure design: derive a case from the board in the product view; cut a slot and the lid is rebuilt.
Circuit World: open hardware indexed by the part each board is built around, from robotics and keyboards to audio, RF and IoT, ready to open or fork.
It runs in the browser, is free to start and needs no credit card. You can also bring an existing KiCad design to be checked, and Circuit World, a library of more than eleven thousand published open hardware boards, lets you start from something someone already built.
Features
Chat to board: describe the machine and the Inky assistant produces the schematic, PCB layout and fab files, then keeps refining as you talk.
KiCad files you keep: the output is a standard KiCad project, so you are not locked in.
Open and check designs: load an existing KiCad file, browse schematic, board and 3D views, and have the AI review it.
Real time collaboration: several people draw, route and place parts on the same board, see each other's pointers and can follow one another across pages.
Enclosure design: derive a case from the board in the product view; cut a slot and the lid is rebuilt.
Circuit World: open hardware indexed by the part each board is built around, from robotics and keyboards to audio, RF and IoT, ready to open or fork.
