ansible-role-hobbies

Installs 3D printing, electronics, and FPV tools on Ubuntu.

Usage

make hobbies
make hobbies -- --tags kicad

Tag	Description
betaflight	FPV flight controller configurator
expresslrs	ExpressLRS radio firmware flashing tool
fpv	betaflight and expresslrs
freecad	Parametric CAD for modelling parts around PCBs
freerouting	PCB autorouter for KiCad; a subset of `kicad`
kicad	Electronics schematic and PCB design, with plugins
orcaslicer	3D printer slicer (user flatpak)

Variable	Purpose
`hobbies_betaflight_version`	Pinned release; only raise it to one whose assets include `linux64-portable.zip`
`hobbies_kicad_version`	Selects both the release PPA and the plugin directory
`hobbies_user`	Account that user-scoped installs (flatpaks, KiCad plugins) apply to

betaflight is pinned because upstream is PWA-only now, so only older releases ship a Linux portable build. It installs to /opt/betaflight/<version>, with /opt/betaflight/current linking to the application directory inside it and betaflight-configurator on PATH.
freecad comes from the maintainers' stable PPA, Ubuntu shipping no freecad package. That series lags the latest major release. freecadcmd runs headless scripts against its bundled OpenCascade.
freerouting installs to /opt/freerouting. The freerouting wrapper on PATH passes -da to disable analytics.
kicad comes from the release PPA that hobbies_kicad_version selects, with the kicad-jlcpcb-tools plugin for LCSC part lookup and KiKit in a /opt/kikit venv for panelization. KiKit is installed from git master, its PyPI releases lagging the KiCad version the PPA installs.