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Demo tour recording, arav-rog 2026-09-05: dock bar to six narrated beats, full desktop with audio

John Lauer · ·closed by John Lauer

Full-desktop recording of the KiCad bridge guided tour, run the way a user runs it, on arav-rog (Windows, 2560x1600, KiCad 10.0.3, bridge 0.9.325, ab 2.1.29), 2026-09-05. John asked for the video with the bridge's own TTS narration in the audio track.

What the clip shows, in order: the Hydrogen dock bar opened and the KiCad card clicked, the KiCad dashboard's "Play the demo" button clicked, then the six beats: STM32G431 symbol, LQFP-48 footprint, the chip in 3D, the esc-g431 schematic, the 2D board, the 3D board. Each window is brought forward once (a small top caption says so), placed in its 80% slot, and gets motion (zoom, pan, orbit). Beat captions bottom-left, ab demo panel bottom-right.

Record for this run: 6 of 6 beats verified in front, painted and stable; 7 gestures on each 2D beat, 20 on each 3D beat; the footprint beat recentered twice when a zoom and a pan emptied its canvas; 5 windows restored to their original bounds at the end. Tour time 96 s, clip 3 min 37 s (the first ~90 s are the dock bar and dashboard).

Known rough edges visible in this take, tracked separately: the ab recorder HUD is on screen in the corner (adom-bridge#143 moves desktop recording into ab core), and the footprint beat's frame reads stable:false because its canvas was still settling at the 8 s bound.

kicad-bridge-demo-arav-rog.mp4

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John Lauer ·

Take 6 (2026-09-05, arav-rog, bridge 0.9.339, ab 2.1.36, pup 2.0.396 recorder), the version with John's asks folded in:

  • Starts in Hydrogen with only the wiki webview open. Narrated prelude: the dock bar is opened (what it is), the KiCad card clicked (what the dashboard shows), then "I am about to click Play the demo, you can do the same, it runs live", the click, and the ghost cursor hidden so it never sits over KiCad.
  • Every editor and viewer window at 98 percent of the work area, centred.
  • Every beat in two parts: A loads the window with its own short line; B starts once the window is verified in front, with the explaining line and the motion (zoom aimed at the MCU using its position parsed from the board and schematic, one zoom step for a single part, isometric orbit in 3D with framing checks).
  • The 3D board shows the six MOSFET bodies: the design referenced them from its author's disk, so the tour drops dead bodies and attaches KiCad's TDSON-8-1, then reopens the board.
  • Audio: the box stays muted for the office, so the narration (adom-tts, the same mp3s the bridge plays) is mixed in post at the offsets the bridge recorded per part; alignment checked frame by frame.

Record: 6 of 6 beats verified in front; gestures 7, 7, 20, 8, 8, 20; 5 windows restored. Two cuts attached: full (3:21) and part B only (2:13).

kicad-demo-full.mp4

kicad-demo-partb.mp4

John Lauer ·

Closing: the recording is done and shipped. The tour cut plays inline in the dashboard (1.0.126 and later) and near the top of the page README; the full and part-B cuts stay attached here for reference.

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