[mkhalil]

I'm sure its happened before, but this is the first time i finally get to see some sort of modern hardware in KiCad.

Pretty cool to see all 6 layers, paste layers, and adhesive layers as well. I've always wondered how the cake was made and if big projects do/could use KiCad. Seems like a lot more work relative to those Single Layer PCBs on YouTube for things like emulators and custom PCBs. Glad I now know for sure, that I can't do this.

[leoedin]

Paste and adhesive are spat out by KiCad as part of the manufacturing outputs. It works pretty much the same way other EDA packages like altium do - the extra layers are part of the part footprint. If you don’t design your own footprints it’s basically no extra work to generate those.

You almost certainly could do it - obviously with some time investment. Getting multi layer PCBs made is surprisingly affordable now.

[k1musab1]

The Reform laptop project is open hardware: https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform

I encourage you to browse it, I found that while challenging, it does not seem unreachable to get to that level of proficiency in KiCad.

[drunkonvinyl]

Depends on any project ideas, but as a newbie to hardware dev and with my own small scope eurorack module idea, I am having a lot of luck with flux.ai. Even got a small order of 5 PCBs printed for under $200.