Hard to imagine Apple would not remove damaged devices from the floor.
In this case it’s not AI that helps its full service board fab and assembly shops like JLCPCB. It’s so cheap to order fully assembled boards there I don’t bother assembling mine at home anymore. Bonus is you don’t need…
At the robotics lab I work with it’s not uncommon for a piece of electronics to require a multi thousand dollar voltmeter, because they need to measure precisely extremely small voltages. We have a bunch of these in our…
Yes! They’re good at reading data sheets and finding things to add, locating LCSC parts, and making sure they’re connected in the schematic. They don’t always make a pretty schematic but they can be convinced to make…
Ya it can
I have it convert Altium files to Kicad and then it uses the Kicad api to control things. If you give it encouragement it should be able to convert back to Altium by parsing the format and building a tool. Supposedly I…
Yes I think generative board design will become better packaged, trained, and validated, and that it will be common place for electrical engineers to rely more on these tools. Major vendors like Altium will add tools…
Ya that makes sense. I will say tho that for things like mechanical CAD, text is extremely limiting. But yeah the learning curve is real and you can’t learn it all. I’ve started trying a bit of LLM assisted mechanical…
Electrical engineering will involve humans making specifications for a while the same way we do vibe engineering today. Board design and layout will change but electrical engineering is about more than that. For tools,…
The designs are in Kicad format, and the Kicad APIs are useful for Claude to work with. I would say that right now this involves a lot of knowledge about PCB design to do well, or for more detailed designs. However you…
I have 15+ years of PCB design experience. Mostly hobby stuff but a fair amount of processional work. Kilowatt range brushless motor controllers, basic RF stuff, lots of microcontroller stuff. I had fable design an LED…
I mean the laundromat runs the machines pretty much 24 hours a day but a washing machine is not AGI. Directly - something can be useful without being AGI.
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Presuming that paying fair wages drives up service price. Uber and Lyft may increase prices a bit, but there are other factors that affect customers willingness to pay which don’t change with increases in driver…
Well running from QSPI flash (even the internal memory versions use SPI internally) so any inference would be very slow streaming from that compared to RAM. The featured article says: “With a peak session RAM around…
Thank you for sharing. MCC is nice when it works. I’ve also found that running the original Halo in Xemu emulator makes for an extremely lightweight, fast, and performant experience. It’s remarkable how heavy weight MCC…
Oh wow the concept of Vitamins, which I learned about from the Reprap Project, must have come from that 1980 NASA study! https://reprap.org/wiki/Category:Vitamin
I had to look it up. Apparently maize did not get to Egypt till around the year 1600 but in British English the word “corn” refers to any local grain. Eg these “Corn laws” refer to wheat:…
Plenty of people are doing novel hard work with AI in open source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867961
Basically. Moreover though it’s cloud based so you can’t run it with a poor connection or no connection. They could change their mind at any time about free accounts and lock users out. Free accounts can’t make private…
Thanks! I had a lot of false starts too. I asked fable in my repo about your question and it said there are two schools of thought on tolerance tracking. My kernel uses exact predicates which fable says eliminates the…
Six months. Basically when Claude code started to hit that inflection point I chose a project that seemed potentially impossible but was also something I care deeply about. (I have a lot of history with open source and…
The app consists of a wasm (web assembly) binary and JavaScript. The wasm runs locally on your machine in your browser and communicates with the JavaScript frontend. There is no backend server to handle any part of the…
Browser can be local. What’s nice about browser based is that browser based programs can run on every device. Though it sounds like this one requires chrome which seems weird to me.
Agreed. I’m not OP but for six months I’ve been using Claude to build a from-scratch CAD kernel based on Rust and WASM, MIT licensed. The actual UI still needs a lot of work, but I’ve been focused on the kernel. Fable…
Hard to imagine Apple would not remove damaged devices from the floor.
In this case it’s not AI that helps its full service board fab and assembly shops like JLCPCB. It’s so cheap to order fully assembled boards there I don’t bother assembling mine at home anymore. Bonus is you don’t need…
At the robotics lab I work with it’s not uncommon for a piece of electronics to require a multi thousand dollar voltmeter, because they need to measure precisely extremely small voltages. We have a bunch of these in our…
Yes! They’re good at reading data sheets and finding things to add, locating LCSC parts, and making sure they’re connected in the schematic. They don’t always make a pretty schematic but they can be convinced to make…
Ya it can
I have it convert Altium files to Kicad and then it uses the Kicad api to control things. If you give it encouragement it should be able to convert back to Altium by parsing the format and building a tool. Supposedly I…
Yes I think generative board design will become better packaged, trained, and validated, and that it will be common place for electrical engineers to rely more on these tools. Major vendors like Altium will add tools…
Ya that makes sense. I will say tho that for things like mechanical CAD, text is extremely limiting. But yeah the learning curve is real and you can’t learn it all. I’ve started trying a bit of LLM assisted mechanical…
Electrical engineering will involve humans making specifications for a while the same way we do vibe engineering today. Board design and layout will change but electrical engineering is about more than that. For tools,…
The designs are in Kicad format, and the Kicad APIs are useful for Claude to work with. I would say that right now this involves a lot of knowledge about PCB design to do well, or for more detailed designs. However you…
I have 15+ years of PCB design experience. Mostly hobby stuff but a fair amount of processional work. Kilowatt range brushless motor controllers, basic RF stuff, lots of microcontroller stuff. I had fable design an LED…
I mean the laundromat runs the machines pretty much 24 hours a day but a washing machine is not AGI. Directly - something can be useful without being AGI.
[dead]
Presuming that paying fair wages drives up service price. Uber and Lyft may increase prices a bit, but there are other factors that affect customers willingness to pay which don’t change with increases in driver…
Well running from QSPI flash (even the internal memory versions use SPI internally) so any inference would be very slow streaming from that compared to RAM. The featured article says: “With a peak session RAM around…
Thank you for sharing. MCC is nice when it works. I’ve also found that running the original Halo in Xemu emulator makes for an extremely lightweight, fast, and performant experience. It’s remarkable how heavy weight MCC…
Oh wow the concept of Vitamins, which I learned about from the Reprap Project, must have come from that 1980 NASA study! https://reprap.org/wiki/Category:Vitamin
I had to look it up. Apparently maize did not get to Egypt till around the year 1600 but in British English the word “corn” refers to any local grain. Eg these “Corn laws” refer to wheat:…
Plenty of people are doing novel hard work with AI in open source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867961
Basically. Moreover though it’s cloud based so you can’t run it with a poor connection or no connection. They could change their mind at any time about free accounts and lock users out. Free accounts can’t make private…
Thanks! I had a lot of false starts too. I asked fable in my repo about your question and it said there are two schools of thought on tolerance tracking. My kernel uses exact predicates which fable says eliminates the…
Six months. Basically when Claude code started to hit that inflection point I chose a project that seemed potentially impossible but was also something I care deeply about. (I have a lot of history with open source and…
The app consists of a wasm (web assembly) binary and JavaScript. The wasm runs locally on your machine in your browser and communicates with the JavaScript frontend. There is no backend server to handle any part of the…
Browser can be local. What’s nice about browser based is that browser based programs can run on every device. Though it sounds like this one requires chrome which seems weird to me.
Agreed. I’m not OP but for six months I’ve been using Claude to build a from-scratch CAD kernel based on Rust and WASM, MIT licensed. The actual UI still needs a lot of work, but I’ve been focused on the kernel. Fable…