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John Lauer README: video through ::adom-video with captions and chapters b614c95 5d ago

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Wolfgang forked a KiCad symbol library on
GitHub so he could make his own changes,

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then pasted the raw GitHub link into KiCad 10.

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KiCad only loads libraries from your own disk,
so it never worked.

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Here is the whole fix, done by Claude inside
Adom Hydrogen.

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Step one, just like Wolfgang: fork it.

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Hydrogen signs in to GitHub with Google,

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gets past the text message code,

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authorizes the GitHub command line, forks the
repo,

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and clones the fork onto the PC.

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Then it turns the fork into a package for
KiCad's Plugin and Content Manager,

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called Wolfgang's cabinet symbols.

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One URL installs all seven libraries at once,

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and every change to the fork arrives in KiCad
as an update.

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Now the proof:

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all 95 symbols, every library, loaded one by
one in KiCad's Symbol Editor.

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KiCad 10 has no API for the symbol editor,

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so Adom Bridge drives KiCad's own windows and
checks every title.

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His library is symbols only.

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Three of them are real products,

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so Hydrogen gave each one a wiki page with a
DIN rail footprint and a 3D model built from
the datasheet,

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with the part number laser etched on the
front.

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Along the way it fixed pin numbers that would
have shorted inputs together,

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pushed everything to the fork,

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and KiCad picked it up through the package
manager:

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symbol, footprint, and 3D.

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Wolfgang also gets his own project page on the
Adom wiki:

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the one install URL, his fork,

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a sub page crediting the original library with
all 95 symbols,

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and a components table linking every part.

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And each of those parts now has a public Adom
component page:

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a 3D model you can orbit,

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the symbol and footprint in live viewers, and
the pin map,

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shared with everyone who builds with these
modules.

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The wiki space is free,

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sponsored in part by the National Science
Foundation,

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toward an AI first wiki of electronic
components.

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Hydrogen is free too, if you want to try what
you saw here.