I have been using Eagle for many years now, but after Autodesk announced that they would kill off the stand-alone application, I suspect that the pricing structure will also change dramatically. Being forced to purchase the full version of Fusion 360 to be able to make boards with more that two layers and be able to use multiple schematic sheets etc is a no-go for me.

Therefore, I decided to bite the bullet and convert to KiCad. I have to say that I am rather impressed. KiCad now seems more mature than Eagle and also easier to use in many respects.

I needed a new project for this "self learning" excercise. Since I already have sourced several CM5 modules with wifi, A CM 5 devkit and also have a few Xiaomi Cybergear BLCD motors lying around, I thought that a high level controller would be a nice project to get me started learning KiCad