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KiCAD Plugins: Spiki - Made Spiral easily in KiCAD

29 Jul, 2022

Spiki a simple application to generate a KiCad footprint (module) for spiral inductors on the PCB.

Below is a link to the github repository for Spiki, a "spiral inductor footprint generator for Kicad". It is free and open source under the GNU GPL General Public License version 2, and is written in the Python programming language.

Spiki

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