A custom Kicad PCB based on the ESP32 and LIS3DH accelerometer. I built this to use as a low power device to detect when my washing machine starts and to send me a notification when it ends.
All files are open source under the Apache Licence 2.0
Since I wanted to order the PCB with JLCPCB, I wanted to ensure I picked parts that they have in stock. To do this, I used easyeda2kicad to pull the schematic, footprint and 3D model of a given LCSC part number. To run the script:
pip install easyeda2kicad
easyeda2kicad --full --lcsc_id=C2894897
This will copy files from EasyEDA (JLCPCB's own PCB creation tool) and save them into your Documents/Kicad directory.
From here, you can add this location as a library into KiCad to make all your downloaded components available:
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In KiCad, Go to Preferences > Configure Paths, and add the environment variables EASYEDA2KICAD :
Windows : C:/Users/your_username/Documents/Kicad/easyeda2kicad/, Linux : /home/your_username/Documents/Kicad/easyeda2kicad/
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Go to Preferences > Manage Symbol Libraries, and Add the global library easyeda2kicad : ${EASYEDA2KICAD}/easyeda2kicad.kicad_sym
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Go to Preferences > Manage Footprint Libraries, and Add the global library easyeda2kicad : ${EASYEDA2KICAD}/easyeda2kicad.pretty