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Is it so difficult to have schematics and pcb exported as PDF so that people do not need to fire up KiCAD to view the stuff?
by s03nk3 4mo ago
Is it so difficult to have schematics and pcb exported as PDF so that people do not need to fire up KiCAD to view the stuff?
- mk_stjames 4mo agoI encounter this problem as well when looking at projects on Github on a near daily basis it seems. It just led me to finding this: https://kicanvas.org/ https://kicanvas.org/ worth a bookmark.
- Retr0id 4mo agoOr even a picture of the physical device! I found some on a linked sales listing: https://chelegance.com/products/kv4p-ht-plugplay-vhf-radio1-7b/ https://chelegance.com/products/kv4p-ht-plugplay-vhf-radio1-...
- wolvoleo 4mo agoThanks! I was looking for that. I see they use those cheapo Chinese RF modules (SA818). I've seen those also with SDR input/output, that's interesting. The underlying chip is very similar: The chip that will be used in this module is the RDA1846. This is a chip that's in most Chinese handhelds and is internally fully SDR but it decodes to analog. There's also the RDA1847 with similar pinout which offers the raw SDR stream and can thus be used for any mode, but with the added complexity of having to do the SDR decoding externally. That means that this design could probably also be modified to do DMR. Though the SDR side might be a little bit too much to ask of an ESP32. On the other hand, it is only a very low bitrate signal.
- oslem 4mo agoSounds like a great contribution you could make!
- vitally3643 4mo agoThere are like six ways to export PDFs from KiCad. Project owners choose not to.