@ubruhin
May 20, 2025
In the past few months our libraries got some nice contributions and also I created more than 70 important library elements and 285 3D models by myself to provide you more ready-to-use components and devices: screw terminals, push buttons, mounting holes and more!
Changes
The rather incomplete libraries are a major criticism of LibrePCB, which also shows our user feedback survey where this is at rank one of things to be improved (but we would also assume it without the survey). In the past few months I have worked a lot on creating more of the important library elements to improve that situation. Also we got some contributions from the community which are now part of our official libraries.
Here’s an overview of the library elements which were added between November 2024 and April 2025:
- LibrePCB Base
- CK
- GCT
- Lolin
- Phoenix
- Sensirion
- Texas Instruments
- Tubes
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K155ID1 / К155ИД1 BCD-to-decimal decoder (thanks to @dbrgn!)
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IN-12B nixie tubes (thanks to @dbrgn!)
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Behind the Scenes
Many of the new library elements were somehow repetitive (screw terminals, capacitors, mounting holes etc.), therefore I extended librepcb-parts-generator with new scripts to generate a large percentage of them.
These scripts also use CadQuery to generate STEP models, thus almost all of the new packages come with 3D models out of the box! In addition, all new devices come with MPNs so you will get an accurate BOM for your project without entering MPNs manually.
What’s Next?
After these library additions, I’m now priorizing the development of LibrePCB 2.0 where I’m making pretty good progress. But I have already planned to make more library contributions later with a focus on modules & devkits (like Arduino, ESP32 etc.) since those things are used in many projects nowadays.
I’m open to receive suggestions about which modules to be added, please tell us in our discussion forum or in our chat!
And don’t forget to update your workspace libraries to get all the new library improvements! Some of the libraries are even entirely new so you might want to install them too.
Credits
Most of these updates were part of the NGI0 Commons grant we receive from NLnet, thanks a lot for their support!