Mini side quest time!

So I recently watched a video from Psychogenic Technologies and learned he made a Python package that lets you easily interact with KiCad Schematics. My mind immediately jumped to PCBA variants. The same weekend, I launched VS Code and started scripting. I later learned I should have searched the web more first… There is already support for variants in KiCad and it was added this year (?) via the KiVar plugin. It looks like KiVar is very well maintained and fleshed out, so if you’re looking for variants in your KiCad project I’d highly recommend you go there.

Alas it was too late; I already created my own python module to create BOM variants. I made my github repo public, but unless you have good reason probably just use KiVar 😉

Anyways here’s my hacky way to get BOM variants into my project!