<p>So if you want to see people using open tools, do what you can to remove those barriers!</p><p>Make your software easy to install and use - yes, even on Windows.</p><p>Do what you can to make your hardware easy to build with the least fancy tools possible (I moved every 0201 up to an 0402 to give folks a fighting chance!) and on accessible PCB technology (I try to stick with what OSHpark can build).</p>

<p>People who chose to contribute to open source obviously want things to be more open and accessible. And if you take away the barriers they face, they *will* learn and use an open software or tool. </p><p>Hell, even after spending so much time fighting it, I still love KiCad, I love that it exists and I want to see it get better.</p><p>But if ThunderScope didn&#39;t become my full time job, I probably wouldn&#39;t have had the time or motivation to fight the tooling for weeks and switch the design over.</p>

<p>And this is why I don&#39;t believe in judging a open source project on how open the tools/software it uses are. </p><p>What matters is that you are taking time in your life to share your knowledge and skills freely and openly with the rest of the world.</p><p>If using the tools you&#39;re familiar with makes that possible for you - use them!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://haunted.computer/@iximeow" class="u-url mention">@<span>iximeow</span></a></span> why</p>

<p>My intention was to make it a design for folks to learn from and build upon. </p><p>Using Altium didn&#39;t align with this intention, but it was what I was most productive in and helped me get the design past the finish line with what little energy I had every evening. </p><p>This &quot;just get it out&quot; mindset affected the schematic too - I had a long look at it one day and realized that I wasn&#39;t proud of it. </p><p>So with the move to KiCad, I wanted to make something artful, not just functional - my return to form</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://girlcock.club/@poppyhaze" class="u-url mention">@<span>poppyhaze</span></a></span> which series is that</p>

<p>It&#39;s official, ThunderScope has now fully moved over to KiCad! </p><p><a href="https://github.com/EEVengers/ThunderScope/blob/master/Hardware/KiCad/Thunderscope_Rev5/Thunderscope_Rev5.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/EEVengers/ThunderSc</span><span class="invisible">ope/blob/master/Hardware/KiCad/Thunderscope_Rev5/Thunderscope_Rev5.pdf</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://camp.crates.im/@nemo" class="u-url mention">@<span>nemo</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@krismicinski" class="u-url mention">@<span>krismicinski</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@ricci" class="u-url mention">@<span>ricci</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@dan" class="u-url mention">@<span>dan</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://recurse.social/@lindsey" class="u-url mention">@<span>lindsey</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sbrunthaler" class="u-url mention">@<span>sbrunthaler</span></a></span> iirc you are not permitted to fork csrankings</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@krismicinski" class="u-url mention">@<span>krismicinski</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@ricci" class="u-url mention">@<span>ricci</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@dan" class="u-url mention">@<span>dan</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://recurse.social/@lindsey" class="u-url mention">@<span>lindsey</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@sbrunthaler" class="u-url mention">@<span>sbrunthaler</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@regehr" class="u-url mention">@<span>regehr</span></a></span> we could probably start a csrankings fork if u guys have specific problems with the methodology</p><p>ive a feeling that no matter what methodology you use, gaming the rankings is probably going to be the norm, so idk if a fork is going to fix that, but creating incentives against collaborations does not sound good :/</p><p>idk much about csrankings tho (im slightly embarrassed to say that ive discovered it only recently)</p>