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Schematic, PCB layout
and the housing around it.

Describe the board in plain English. ElectronicsForge picks real parts, wires the KiCad schematic, places and routes the PCB, and designs the enclosure it lives in — as files you download, open and edit yourself.

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Prompt — "WiFi thermostat: STM32, 1.3" OLED, DHT22 sensor, relay output for the heater, USB-C powered, wall-mounted."
SCH PCB 3D Product BOM Design complete
Parts — chosen, priced and wired BOM
ComponentRoleQtyUnit
STM32G071CBT6MCU1€3.10
SH1106 OLED 1.3"Display1€5.80
DHT22Sensor1€4.40
ESP8266-07SWiFi1€3.60
Files this design exports Output
.kicad_sch · .kicad_pcb (placed & routed) · Gerber X2 + Excellon · enclosure .stl

Interface preview  ·  prices shown come from distributor data at generation time

.kicad_sch
Wired schematic
.kicad_pcb
Placed & routed board
Gerber X2
Fab package + drills
.stl
Printable enclosure

What it does

Three outputs, one description.

A wired schematic, a placed and routed board, and the enclosure that fits around it — every one of them a file you can open in your own tools.

01 — Schematic

Every part placed and wired on a sheet you can read.

ElectronicsForge picks the parts, works out what connects to what, and draws it as a KiCad sheet — real library symbols, net labels, power flags, and the supporting passives each IC needs. Ask for a change in plain English and the sheet is rewired; a rule check flags missing decoupling, floating inputs and unpowered rails before you export.

.kicad_sch download Real KiCad symbols Rule check Edit by prompt
U1 STM32G071 VDDPA0PA1 PB6VSS SCLSDA TXRX C1 100n 3V3 3V3 R1 R2 4k7 UART_TX UART_RX Smart Thermostat Sheet 1/3 · A4 ERC: 0 errors
U1 C2R3 C5C4 J1 2 layers · 0.2 mm track / 0.2 mm clearance
02 — PCB layout

Footprints placed, copper routed, planes poured.

The netlist becomes a real board: KiCad footprints placed on an outline sized to the product, the copper autorouted with Freerouting, ground poured and stitched. The app decides the layer count from density and signal integrity rather than asking you to guess it. Download the .kicad_pcb, or the Gerber X2 and Excellon package your fab asks for.

.kicad_pcb download Freerouting Gerber X2 + Excellon 2 / 4 / 6 layers 3D view
03 — Enclosure

The housing the finished product actually needs.

The PRODUCT tab designs a case around the board you just laid out: outer shape, wall thickness, board standoffs, and an opening for every connector, button and LED — measured off the placed footprints, so the hole in front of J1 really is in front of J1. Refine it in plain English, then download it as a printable .stl with the dimensions written out.

.stl download Cutouts from footprints Refine by prompt Flex boards fold in 3D
USB-C · J1 LED 92.0 mm 24.0 wall 2.0 mm · cutouts from the footprints
BOM — Motor Driver v2 14 components
ComponentTypeUnit price
DRV8825Driver IC€2.90
STM32G031K8MCU€1.80
4.7 µH InductorPassive€0.18
INA219Sensor€1.40
100 µF / 50 VPassive€0.22
04 — Parts & sourcing

Real part numbers, priced where you would buy them.

Every line of the BOM is an orderable part number, not a placeholder. Prices and stock come from distributor data through Octopart — Digi-Key, Mouser, LCSC and the rest — and each part carries its datasheet, its package and the alternatives you can swap in when the fab says a line is out of stock.

Distributor pricing Datasheet per part Alternatives & swap Power budget per rail

Pricing

Pay for what you generate.

No subscription. A new account starts with 150 credits — enough for a first complete design. After that you top up, and each generation is billed on the work it actually took.

Starter pack
€5one-time
500 credits
For trying a second and third board after the free one.
  • ≈ 3 designs at the typical cost
  • Schematic, PCB and enclosure
  • All file downloads included
  • Credits never expire
Get started free
Large pack
€50one-time
5 000 credits
For teams running several boards at a time.
  • ≈ 33 designs at the typical cost
  • Same flat rate, no bulk pricing games
  • Full usage ledger per request
  • Credits never expire
Get started free

1 credit = €0.01, so €5 buys 500 credits. A complete design typically costs around 150 credits — about €1.50 — and the dashboard shows what every request was charged. Bigger boards cost more than small ones, so the number above is a typical figure, not a quota.


Domains

It looks up what the device is
before it designs one.

Ask for a device class and the planner researches what that thing actually consists of — the blocks it must have, the hardware off the board it talks to, and what it is commonly confused with — before a single part is chosen.

Connected devices
BLE and WiFi boards, where the antenna, its keep-out and the 50 Ω feed are part of the design rather than an afterthought.
Antenna keep-out50 Ω feedMatching network
Sensing & measurement
Front ends around a real sensor part: references, filtering, and the supporting parts its datasheet asks for.
Datasheet blocksAnalog front end
Motor & motion
Driver stages with current sense and gate drive, sized to the motor the product actually turns.
Driver stageCurrent sense
Power & battery
Rails worked out as a budget: what each part draws, whether the source carries it, and how long the cell lasts.
Power budgetRuntime estimateCell selection
EV charging
An EVSE is a switched supply with a Control Pilot, not a battery charger — the planner knows the difference and asks for the spec it needs.
J1772 Control PilotVehicle inlet
Wearables & flex
Boards that fold: where the bend goes, whether the laminate survives it, and the folded stack the housing has to fit.
Bend radiusFolded envelope
Embedded compute
The workload decides whether it is an MCU or an embedded-Linux MPU — you are never asked to pick a chip you have not evaluated.
MCU vs MPUMemory bus rules
Harsh environments
Thermal and environmental checks on the placed board — what runs hot, what derates, what the enclosure has to shed.
Thermal modelDerating

What ElectronicsForge does not do: certify anything. It can name the standards that apply to a market as a starting point, but what it produces are design files — not test reports and not declarations of conformity. That work stays with you and your test house.

Design your first board.

A free account comes with enough credits for one complete design — schematic, routed board and the housing around it.

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