atomic14 / kicad-coil-plugins

Some simple plugins for generating stator coils in kicad

Getting set up

Running the notebook locally

Make sure you have python3 installed. Then run the following commands:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
jupyter notebook

Getting KiCad set up

Add the plugin to KiCad by symbolically linking it to the kicad_plugins directory.

ln -s ${PWD}/coil_plugin.py ~/Documents/KiCad/6.0/scripting/plugins/coil_plugin.py

You can order the PCBs directly from PCBWay (or download the Gerbers) from these links

The project is still very experimental - so there are no guarantees that these will work or do anything useful...

• 6 circular coils - https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/Proof_of_concept_6_coil_spiral_PCB_stator_23ae7370.html
• 6 wedge coils - https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/Proof_of_concept_6_coil_wedge_PCB_stator_c231a379.html
• 12 wedge coils - https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/Proof_of_concept_12_coil_wedge_PCB_stator_c54d9374.html

Building python to take advantage of the M1 Mac Multiprocessors

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/qog8x3/if_you_are_using_apples_m1_macs_compiling_numpy/