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KiCad now available in the browser
Emergence Engineering has ported KiCad, a popular circuit board design software, to run directly in the browser. The project called PCBJam is available as an MVP and supports Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, with the ability to load existing projects or use demo projects.
WHY IT MATTERS
This makes advanced electronics design accessible without local installation and enables collaboration in the browser. The port also demonstrates technically groundbreaking work with WebGL, WebAssembly, and Emscripten that could inspire other complex desktop applications to move to the web platform.
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