It's still pretty difficult to route a single-layer board with KiCad. Who still uses single-layer board these days? Pretty much everyone who does anything modern with a 2-layer PCB, the bottom layer is the EMC/RF ground plane, so there's only 1 effective layer. There really should be a "jumper manager" that allows you to add ad-hoc wires and THT/SMD resistors, perhaps with back-annotation. #electronics
@niconiconi kicad doesnt get much love and when i used to float the idea of alternatives on fedi i just got told to just buy eagle bro
sad part is someone once copied the topo autorouter but its buried in an old geda module
sad part is someone once copied the topo autorouter but its buried in an old geda module
@icedquinn@blob.cat There's new topo autorouter currently in development, funded by NLnet. https://codeberg.org/topola/topola
@niconiconi They added jumpers last week https://www.kicad.org/blog/2026/03/Version-10.0.0-Released/
@niconiconi insert "too poor to pay for a double layer PCB? Just place 0 Ohm resistors all over the place. You certainly won't regret placing 0 Ohm resistors all over the place." meme
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