It’s a easy truth that for each circuit you design, somebody else has done it before. If you’re working on a high altitude balloon project, there’s already a job available with a microcontroller, barometric pressure sensor, as well as an SD card somewhere available in a corner of the Internet. Google will only assist so much if you want to copy these previous builds, which led [Ben] to find up with a much better solution. He took lots of building blocks for fundamental digital jobs as well as put them all into one truly fantastic interface called HackEDA.

The premise is simple: many electronic jobs are just electronic Lego. You link your microcontroller to a sensor, add in a battery, throw in a few caps as well as resistors for great measure, as well as ideally whatever will work. HackEDA takes all those fundamental building blocks – microcontrollers, power sources, as well as sensors – as well as produces a customized Eagle schematic with all the parts your job needs

HackEDA is still extremely much in beta, so there aren’t a whole great deal of building blocks to select from. That said, being able to produce an Eagle schematic with all the parts required for your next job is a boon. With this, all you requirement for a final circuit card is to produce a new board file, hit the autorouter, as well as spend a half hour repairing whatever mess the autorouter made.