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OSH Park
Company blog · blog.oshpark.comhardwarebusiness
OSH Park is the company blog at blog.oshpark.com, writing about hardware and business. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The one comment links an OSH Park post on upcoming KiCad changes, where footprints are downloaded instead of using the GitHub plugin. It is cited as a source, not reviewed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Perfect Purple PCBs
What Hacker News says?
The big changes are the foot prints are being downloaded instead of using the github plugin. http://blog.oshpark.com/2018/02/10/whats-coming-in-kicad-ver... I think there's maybe two things added to kicad that could be very awesome. 1. For SMD components, take a part, put it on a flatbed scanner and scan the footprint directly and allow you to edit widths before using it. Then I could just order the parts and use th…
Comment linking /2018/02/10/whats-coming-in-kicad-version-5/
on “Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman [pdf]”Submitted OSH Park now supports native KiCad uploads as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted The First Ruggedized Satellite as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Watch all the talks from the Open Hardware Summit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Star Simpson and Oshpark Print Classic Forrest Mims Circuits as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Hardware Summit CFP as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open All the Way Down as a story · 1 points
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