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  mikeayles
  The space is definitely heating up.Flux.ai being the incumbent Silixon based out of the UK have been showing demos Quilter and DeepPCB for layout The recent OpenAI demo...I went the other way and pre-designed sub circuits with a set of rules that allows simple merge assembly, unfortunately I didn't have the time or budget to continue with it, but I took the constrained approach as with hardware, things can't be 99%.The one thing I will say, is that my experience of hardware engineers is very gatekeepy.Any questions about the use of AI for any form of automation on forums/Reddit get shot down instantly and the OP's told 'skill issue' more or less. In my opinion, just as with software, most work is simple and should be automated, there will always be a need for the real engineering when it comes to high specification work, high volume optimisation and hardware debug (although Claude code is pretty handy at driving a Jlink)
• jimberlage
  This is probably not the primary way people use the tool, but if I log in (desktop, Chrome on macOS), click "Start a board" on the sidebar, and go to click any of the inputs, I can't type text in them (the inputs are "Start from an example", "What are you building", and "The brief".
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  danielmorozoff
  Has anyone had experience with Copperhead vs Astra and kicad? Looking for a similar tool soon
• aitchnyu
  Why would somebody ever use a hosted version? I see "One-click gerber, DXF/STEP, render and BOM export" and "Altium support beyond KiCad" in cloud plans, dunno if they are compelling.
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  tylergetsay
  Can I take the output of this and get a fully assembled board mailed to me? Thats my dream...
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  anirudhojhaanil
  With AI enabled consumer hardware usecases going to explode this is something super relevant. At least 5 startups have pitched their wearables to me and they could definitely use this
• nullbio
  Let me know when I can build my own Cerebras chips, because we're never going to see them as consumers, otherwise.Yes yes, I know, leagues apart. Still though... One can dream.
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  motoboi
  "hardware as fast as software". Please no, lol.I've imagined a chip running as slow as python.
• anon
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• avsteele
  Interested in the evaluations of anyone actually using this.I tested over the weekend and Astra can- create and modify schematics from instructions - place components and route tracesout of the box, just via normal 'computer use'. I'm not satisfied with the routing but it isn't terrible.
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  fwip
  Might be a better website if it wasn't all clearly AI-copy."Nothing commits without its gate."
• anon
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• krttherealest
  it would propably help thousands of ppl ngl
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  mattanimation
  look inside, sees typescript, walks away.
• Tiberium
  https://github.com/i2cjak/T3CAD seems like another promising project
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  tadasv
  I used claude and gemini to edit/debug kicad schematics. And it was pretty good. What is the point of this agent?
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