Wolfgang's KiCad library

{
 "video": "/john/wolfgang-kicad-library/render/docs/video/wolfgang-kicad-library-demo.mp4",
 "title": "How Wolfgang's KiCad library was built",
 "poster": "/john/wolfgang-kicad-library/render/docs/video/wolfgang-kicad-library-demo-poster.png",
 "chapters": [
  {
   "t": 0,
   "title": "The question on the KiCad forum"
  },
  {
   "t": 12.31,
   "title": "Adom Hydrogen + Claude"
  },
  {
   "t": 19.41,
   "title": "Fork it on GitHub"
  },
  {
   "t": 29.27,
   "title": "One KiCad PCM URL"
  },
  {
   "t": 43.24,
   "title": "All 95 symbols in KiCad"
  },
  {
   "t": 57.94,
   "title": "3D for the real parts"
  },
  {
   "t": 70.61,
   "title": "Synced back into KiCad"
  },
  {
   "t": 81.04,
   "title": "Wolfgang's project page"
  },
  {
   "t": 93.87,
   "title": "Public Adom component pages"
  },
  {
   "t": 105.64,
   "title": "Free wiki space, free Hydrogen"
  }
 ],
 "captions": "WEBVTT\n\n00:00:00.050 --> 00:00:04.991\nWolfgang forked a KiCad symbol library on\nGitHub so he could make his own changes,\n\n00:00:04.991 --> 00:00:07.762\nthen pasted the raw GitHub link into KiCad 10.\n\n00:00:07.762 --> 00:00:11.708\nKiCad only loads libraries from your own disk,\nso it never worked.\n\n00:00:12.358 --> 00:00:16.381\nHere is the whole fix, done by Claude inside\nAdom Hydrogen.\n\n00:00:16.381 --> 00:00:18.904\nStep one, just like Wolfgang: fork it.\n\n00:00:19.458 --> 00:00:21.875\nHydrogen signs in to GitHub with Google,\n\n00:00:21.875 --> 00:00:23.809\ngets past the text message code,\n\n00:00:23.809 --> 00:00:26.830\nauthorizes the GitHub command line, forks the\nrepo,\n\n00:00:26.830 --> 00:00:28.764\nand clones the fork onto the PC.\n\n00:00:29.325 --> 00:00:34.126\nThen it turns the fork into a package for\nKiCad's Plugin and Content Manager,\n\n00:00:34.126 --> 00:00:36.246\ncalled Wolfgang's cabinet symbols.\n\n00:00:36.246 --> 00:00:39.054\nOne URL installs all seven libraries at once,\n\n00:00:39.054 --> 00:00:42.735\nand every change to the fork arrives in KiCad\nas an update.\n\n00:00:43.291 --> 00:00:44.301\nNow the proof:\n\n00:00:44.301 --> 00:00:49.635\nall 95 symbols, every library, loaded one by\none in KiCad's Symbol Editor.\n\n00:00:49.635 --> 00:00:52.692\nKiCad 10 has no API for the symbol editor,\n\n00:00:52.692 --> 00:00:57.421\nso Adom Bridge drives KiCad's own windows and\nchecks every title.\n\n00:00:57.991 --> 00:00:59.584\nHis library is symbols only.\n\n00:00:59.584 --> 00:01:01.424\nThree of them are real products,\n\n00:01:01.424 --> 00:01:07.403\nso Hydrogen gave each one a wiki page with a\nDIN rail footprint and a 3D model built from\nthe datasheet,\n\n00:01:07.403 --> 00:01:10.105\nwith the part number laser etched on the\nfront.\n\n00:01:10.658 --> 00:01:14.738\nAlong the way it fixed pin numbers that would\nhave shorted inputs together,\n\n00:01:14.738 --> 00:01:16.369\npushed everything to the fork,\n\n00:01:16.369 --> 00:01:19.144\nand KiCad picked it up through the package\nmanager:\n\n00:01:19.144 --> 00:01:20.540\nsymbol, footprint, and 3D.\n\n00:01:21.091 --> 00:01:24.719\nWolfgang also gets his own project page on the\nAdom wiki:\n\n00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:26.606\nthe one install URL, his fork,\n\n00:01:26.606 --> 00:01:30.640\na sub page crediting the original library with\nall 95 symbols,\n\n00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:33.373\nand a components table linking every part.\n\n00:01:33.925 --> 00:01:37.393\nAnd each of those parts now has a public Adom\ncomponent page:\n\n00:01:37.393 --> 00:01:38.847\na 3D model you can orbit,\n\n00:01:38.847 --> 00:01:42.161\nthe symbol and footprint in live viewers, and\nthe pin map,\n\n00:01:42.161 --> 00:01:45.127\nshared with everyone who builds with these\nmodules.\n\n00:01:45.691 --> 00:01:47.056\nThe wiki space is free,\n\n00:01:47.056 --> 00:01:50.202\nsponsored in part by the National Science\nFoundation,\n\n00:01:50.202 --> 00:01:53.111\ntoward an AI first wiki of electronic\ncomponents.\n\n00:01:53.111 --> 00:01:56.557\nHydrogen is free too, if you want to try what\nyou saw here.\n"
}