Handbook: from a circuit to a manufactured board with EasyEDA Pro or KiCad and Claude Code¶

The complete handbook: what edakit does, every case and every key, and what the assistant reads in a session. The short way is the steps. The guides, by station. The circuit is a result on its own; the board starts from its hand-over. New here: the quickstart and how it works come first.

The circuit¶

	Chapter	Read it when
1	The approach	you want to know why this works the way it does
2	Setup	you install the tool chain
11	Working with Claude	you use the plugin, run parallel sessions, or wonder about the working agreements
14	Designing a circuit	you design a circuit, want to know what a check or hint means, or use building blocks
3	Hardware graph	you write or change the circuit
4	Parts database	you add a part
5	Simulation	you set up scenarios or a behaviour model
15	Regulatory review	a board is sold or given away, or it transmits – support, not legal advice

The station ends with the drawn schematic – 6.5, without an EDA program – and the hand-over to the layout (edakit handover, 14.1): enough for a hand-wired build, a perfboard – its plan checked and drawn, 7.9 – or a document, or the input of the board.

The board¶

	Chapter	Read it when
6	Schematic	you generate or arrange schematics
7	PCB	you place, route, pour, print, or plan a perfboard
8	Release gate	you prepare an order
16	KiCad as the tool chain	you weigh KiCad against EasyEDA Pro, the default, or draw in KiCad (`toolchain = "kicad"`)
17	Walkthrough on EasyEDA: a coin cell, a button, an LED	you want to see every step once, on the smallest board
18	Walkthrough on KiCad: a 555 blinker	you draw in KiCad, run a board from cells behind a power switch, or want an IC through every step
12	Troubleshooting	something fails
13	Lessons learned	you want the history of edakit and what it learned

Reference¶

	Chapter	Read it when
10	Reference	you need a key of edakit.toml, of a board or schematic file, or a command
9	EasyEDA API	you call the API directly or something behaves strangely
19	Verification and validation	you want to know how far a finding or a clean check can be trusted, or you add a reference circuit or an open design

Reading paths¶

First time: the quickstart → 1 → 2 → 17 → 3 → 6 → 7 → 8.
New circuit: 14 → 3 → 4 → 5.
Something broke: 12 → 9.
Adapting to your board: 10 → 3 → 7.
On KiCad: 1 → 2 → 16 → 18 – 16.1 says when to take it, table 16.4 what each command does there, chapter 18 shows a board through it.