I will be hacking on this project for FOSSHack 2025. This is a huge hackathon in India (10k registrations?) with both online and offline happening right now! Hack ends at Feb 23 8 PM IST.

I've built this project and developed it for easing soldering of TH (through hole) components.  For this hack, I want to see what can be done to ease any pains with SMD.  Top idea right now is - can we use SMD components without soldering, by holding the parts in place using a 3D printed jig.  

One relevant work here is SolderlessPCB. This was also covered in this hackaday article.  Note that this won't directly with KiCAD, but the concepts there are useful. There's also this article on Z-tape and conductive ink.

All that said, I feel Jigit comes rather close to what is needed for SMD.  In the next few days I will see how far I can take this. I am also doing a masterclass/workshop on Jigit, titled "Perfect Soldering on PCBs with 3D Printed Jigs", at IoTShow conference in a few days. So this should be come in handy indeed.

I developed Jigit for my own needs - especially out of frustration of soldering my AtiVEGA board, but I then made it quite generic so that it could be useful for others and myself in future projects. For more people to use it though, it needs to be better documented. I hope some of the efforts during FOSSHack will help create good examples.