We have had a number of requests for board files, but never felt comfortable releasing them because the KiCAD libraries they are based on were rather messy.

It is likely the old projects will never be released in full open format simply because we don’t think the board files would make any sense to anyone else.

To solve this issue, we have started new KiCAD libraries with some standardization on how things are named.

They will be updated to match the latest project that is released.

Essentially there are two classes of parts through hole (TH) and surface mount (SMD). There are two flavors of parts standard footprints (SOIC8, 0603 things like that), and not standard.

Therefore there are 4 libraries. If a part isn’t known to be standard it will go in the non-standard library. Most parts will have a default package for PCB-CV, other packages may exist but you are advised to check the pinout if you don’t use the default package

The non-standard part naming convention is:

partType_vender_partNumber

e.g. opamp_Ti_OPA350