ecoEDA: Recycling e-waste during electronics design @plopesresearch

ecoEDA is a Python-based tool that integrates with KiCad. It is designed to provide suggestions of recycled components whenever you add a new symbol to your schematic.

ecoEDA library generator Users can create an ecoEDA library (library of electronic components recycled from e-waste) by using a spreadsheet (.csv) to inventory their parts and using our custom scripts to translate their inventory into a KiCad compatible ecoEDA library. This allows for use of these components when building schematics in KiCad.

Import previous schematics To allow for reusing components from previous schematics. Users can use our custom script to import previous schematics to add their parts to their ecoEDA library.

In-editor suggestions As you add new components to your schematic, ecoEDA will search through the library to offer suggestions for potential replacements. These will appear as pop-ups on the side of your KiCad editor window.

ecoEDA is presented in the paper “ecoEDA: Recycling E-Waste during Electronics Design”, which appeared at UIST2023. The tool was built by Jasmine Lu (@xjasminelu), Beza Desta (@Beza20), Joyce Passananti (@Joyce-Passananti) with project assistance from K.D. Wu, Romain Nith, and Pedro Lopes at the University of Chicago’s Human Computer Integration Lab.

See more on GitHub.


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