Circuit Painter

Circuit painter is a creative coding tool for making functional printed circuit boards.

Inspired by the simplifed drawing language of Processing, this tool provides an environment for designing PCBs using basic geometric shapes such as lines, arcs, and polygons. The tool maintains a drawing ‘context’ that applies a translation and rotation matrix to all calls, making it simple to replicate circuit features at differnt points across a circuit board. Functional PCB components such as part footprints can also be placed, and connected together logically using ‘nets’.

Circuit painter works as a front end / wrapper for KiCad’s pcbnew.

For more backgrond on the project, see Matt’s Hackaday Berlin talk about Circuit painter.