RFGen

Open Subject Project

During my Erasmus+ Exchange semester at Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, I needed to complete a one-credit Open Subject. Since I’m an avid KiCad user, I decided to spend that credit learning how to program KiCad plugins. I chose to create an RF generation tool because earlier that summer I had worked on 5.8 GHz patch antenna arrays, and that experience showed me how repetitive and time-consuming RF geometry creation can be. The plugin was written in Python using KiCad’s “pcbnew” scripting library. Building this plugin became a natural extension of that work, a tool that would genuinely help me if I return to RF design in the future (and I fully plan to). It was a fun project, and I intend to keep expanding it. Right now it can generate patch antennas and Wilkinson power dividers with custom parameters, but I plan to add more functionality over time. If you are interested, you can find this project on my GitHub.

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