Interview: Creating a FOSS printed circuit board design tool

FYI: KiCad is very good and is funded by CERN: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kicad-pcb.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kicad-pcb.org&#x2F;</a><p>Licence is GPL3&#x2F;AGPL3.<p>KiCad has high-end drawing features, but the commercial tools will always have better parts libraries.

Editor here. This interview is a great example of a useful project emerging from frustration and tinkering. Urban was unsatisfied with the proprietary tools for making PCBs while building a quadcopter, and ended up making something much bigger in the course of solving his own problem.