Four Motors, One Power PCB: Our Second-Generation SiC Inverter Hello fellow makers, We are Campus Tirol Motorsport, the Formula Student team from Innsbruck. Every year, we develop and build an electric race car to compete against university teams from around the world. You can learn more about Formula Student and our team. In our previous article, we introduced our first self-developed motor controllers: modular assemblies separating the power stage, gate drivers and control electronics. For t...

TU Graz Racing Team - Testing and debugging a Formula Student racecar Test Phase In the last post we wrote about the Design and Manufacturing phase in the TU Graz Racing Team. The next step after this was to finally get on the test track with our newly built car and drive the first kilometres. At first, we drove without front and rearwing to test the basic vehicle functions and to see which problems would occur while driving. This year our car was ready to drive pretty early, in the middle of...

Aerospace Team Graz - Who we are We are ASTG - Aerospace Team Graz, a student rocketry club based at Graz University of Technology in Austria. The team consists of about 100 members of all different kinds of degree programs. Each year our teams goal is to participate at the annual European Rocketry Challenge in Portugal. Last year, we pushed the envelope of our hybrid engine design with ISPIDA, designed to reach an apogee of 9000 meters at EuRoC25. ISPIDA ISPIDA is the third hybrid engine pro...

Having a shared component library can save time, reduce mistakes and make designs more consistent. Without proper management, however, it can create its own set of problems that may not be obvious at first. As a Formula Student team in its first year, we at JKU Racing have learned this lesson the hard way throughout several PCB development cycles. Although there was no single problem that caused the entire system to fail, we accumulated a growing collection of small issues that hindered an effe...

Hi everyone! We are Loc.KA.engineering e.V., an interdisciplinary student team from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Our mission is to design and build innovative railway technology for the European Railway Challenge (https://railwaychallenge.eu/) , where students develop, build and test small scale locomotives. To achieve this, we develop almost everything ourselves—from mechanical components and embedded software to custom electronics. Designing our own PCBs allows us to tailor e...

Introduction Honored browser of the Interweb, Greetings from Team Solaride, a student solar car team from Estonia. We’re building our (and indeed the Baltic’s) fourth solar-powered car, competing in the Cruiser Class. As with every season, this season brings a brand new car, 70-ish happy members and a goal to finish first in our class in the 2027 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge held in Australia. Radio / Intercom board The what and why In this post we’d like to showcase our initial design fo...

Photo: Bart van Overbeeke Project overview This year, Solar Team Eindhoven, a team of 23 students from the Eindhoven University of technologies is building Stella Juva: the world’s first solar-powered ambulance. By relying purely on the power of the sun, Stella Juva can both drive as well as power its medical equipment entirely independent of the energy grid. This enables Stella Juva to provide medical care anywhere in the world, even in remote and hard-to-reach areas. In August 2026, the...

Your custom KiCad library is only useful if your whole team can trust it. In part 3 of 3, Petr Dvořák (#ThatKiCadGuy) installs the AISLER Lovely Library, put...

Introduction We are a student-led rocketry group of around 100 members from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. Our ultimate goal is to build a self-landing, bi-liquid hopper rocket. Every component of this hopper is designed and manufactured in-house by our team. We are divided into specialized sub-teams: the Engine team designs and tests our liquid-propellant rocket engine; the Structure team develops the tanks and the rocket’s airframe; and the Avionics team writes the ...

We are Aetherspace, a student-led aerospace team from KU Leuven (Belgium), developing Aether: T-ReX: a 3U re-entry CubeSat demonstrator that will fly aboard a REXUS sounding rocket in March 2027. Our mission is to make space research more accessible by developing a low-cost platform capable of returning scientific payloads back to Earth. Throughout the project, AISLER has been our trusted PCB manufacturing partner, helping us iterate quickly on the electronics that make our mission possible. I...

Global or project-specific? Where you keep your KiCad symbols decides whether 'Future You' can actually find them.In part 1 of 3, Petr Dvořák (#ThatKiCadGuy)...

Hydrogen Safety Circuit We are HyDriven, a student team from the University of Twente and Saxion University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. Each year, we design and build a hydrogen-powered Formula Student race car. Red Bull ring While most people focus on performance, a large part of our engineering effort goes into safety. One of the most important systems in our car is the Hydrogen Safety Circuit (HSC). Picture HSC PCB The HSC is a fully analog control circuit responsible f...

Hello everyone! We are the TUG Racing Team, the Formula Student Team of Graz University of Technology. Every year we develop and build an electric race car with around 50 people from different academic programmes. In the summer we participate in competitions with other Formula Student Teams from all over the world in several disciplines, technical and non-technical. There are dynamic ones, where our car is driving on different courses, but also static ones like a Business Plan presentation. A ...

From 1 July 2026, the EU will apply a temporary €3 customs duty per item on low-value consignments (up to €150) imported from outside the EU, abolishing the duty exemption applicable until 30 June 2026.

We are CAPILUX, a student team currently working on an experiment aboard the REXUS 38 sounding rocket as part of the Swedish-German REXUS/BEXUS programme (cycle 17). Our experiment investigates capillary-driven fluid behaviour in microgravity — studying how liquids move through V-groove channels and passive valves when gravity no longer dominates the flow. Understanding this is directly relevant to passive fluid management systems used in spacecraft propellant tanks and thermal control loops. W...

This blog post is a follow-up to our previous article about Focus Project Equilibrio. While the first post introduced the robot and the role of electronics in the system, this article focuses on the evolution of our custom PCBs. In a compact robotic platform like Equilibrio, the electronics are tightly coupled to the mechanical design, power architecture, sensor interfaces, and safety concept. As the robot evolved, the PCBs had to evolve with it. From First Concept to Power Distribution Board T...

Hello from Robotik UTT in Troyes! This year, our team participated in the French Robotics Cup centered around the exciting theme, “Winter is Coming”! ❄ Today, we are thrilled to share the core electronic components that powered our robot’s main power supply PCB, designed entirely in KiCad. The Power Source First of all, the robot is powered by a Parkside drill battery featuring an integrated BMS (Battery Management System). This choice made our testing and operations significantly ...

Hello Aisler community, We are VOID, a student rocketry team from the TU/e with the aim of researching and developing reusable rockets. More specifically, we focus on developing liquid bi-propellant powered rockets with the ability to propulsively land. At the moment we have two main projects. The first is project Ignis, a rocket designed to compete at the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoc) in the 3km apogee category. This project is also used as a stepping stone in developing the whol...

Hey folks, we are the Os.Car Racing Team, the Formula Student team based at the University of Applied Sciences Vienna. Our goal is to manufacture a prototype ICE and hybrid-powered vehicle every year to compete in various Formula Student competitions around the world. In this article, we are glad to present our new Power Distribution PCB, which will be used in the 2026 events. What is the purpose of the Power Distribution PCB? The goal of the new PCB is to make efficient use of the limited sp...

If you are migrating legacy designs to LibrePCB, you don’t have to start from scratch. LibrePCB version 2.0 includes a built-in import tool for Autodesk EAGLE files. Before we start, keep in mind: The importer only supports XML-based EAGLE files (v6 or later). If you have v5 .sch, .brd, or .lbr files, you must open and save them in a newer version of EAGLE first to convert the formatting. Because this tool translates between two different software architectures, there are limitations. Review t...