Circuit Painter
Creative tool for programmable PCB creation
Circuit Painter is a creative coding tool for generating functional printed circuit boards (PCBs). It enables users to easily automate circuit designs that involve repetitive tasks such as LED matrixes, sensors, and test boards. Circuit Painter is implemented as a simplified Python-based language, using vector graphics-inspired techniques such as matrix transformation to simplify board generation. It uses KiCad as a backend for rendering PCBs, and can directly export manufacturing files, or be used in conjunction with traditional routing for more complex designs. A web-based interface being developed to allow the tool to be used in a classroom or ad-hoc setting.
- The project's own website: https://circuitpainter.blinkinlabs.com/
Run by Blinkinlabs
This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
