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The author describes using the AI tool Fable 5 to autonomously design a PCB for an RPI 2350-based development board, encountering and resolving issues like DRC errors and component selection with the tool's assistance.
Copperhead is an open-source AI agent that designs, documents, and verifies printed circuit boards through a staged workflow with gates, providing a free CLI and paid cloud/team plans.
A user describes using GPT-6 to create a script that automates PCB design simulations with openEMS to optimize ground-plane voids for impedance control, planning to port it to palace EM for faster parallel processing.
Trevor's Dev releases Atlas Fields Studio, a free software tool for exploring electromagnetic behavior around PCB designs.
This article describes a DIY business card designed with PCBs that uses NFC energy harvesting to power LED animations without batteries, involving MCU implementation and techniques like Charlieplexing.
An autorouter tool efficiently routes a PCB board in 1 minute on 2 layers, outperforming Freerouting and matching DeepPCB benchmarks with reduced vias.
A blog post detailing the construction of a physical Conway's Game of Life implementation using a custom PCB, AVR microcontroller, and LED switches for interactive art.
Cherry Blossom allows users to build fabrication-ready custom PCBs with a single prompt, streamlining hardware design.
An ESP32-based FM radio tuner project using TEA5767 module, featuring custom PCB design with OLED display and amplifier, documented on GitHub.
A PDF document describing the IPC-7351B standard for zero orientation of electronic components in CAD libraries, providing guidelines for consistent placement and orientation.
A developer designed a custom PCB with an ATtiny85 to automate a night light button press, resolving the issue of the light always starting at maximum brightness.
A developer built a custom music streamer with a 17-inch LP-sleeve-sized display, learning PCB design, 3D printing, and low-level Linux programming along the way.
ProtoFlow is an AI-powered PCB design tool for engineers and hardware teams.
Stillwind Builder is a tool that accelerates PCB design by generating a Bill of Materials from natural language constraints, currently in free public beta.
KiCad, the open-source PCB EDA suite, is now available in the browser via PCBJam from Emergence Engineering, using WebAssembly, WebGL, and threaded emulation to achieve near-native performance.
A college student built an open-source component registry for AI-assisted PCB design, akin to npm for hardware, aiming to crowdsource 1,000 common components to reduce hallucinations in agentic PCB design tools like Claude Code.