Synth, an in-development AI hardware design tool, completed a 4-layer RP2350 battery telemetry board with 34 components, 292 traces, 45 vias, and zero unrouted nets in approximately 19 minutes wall-cl…
HeyPCB founder Justin Kim launched live multiplayer editing for hardware design on September 26th, letting electrical and mechanical engineers collaborate on the same KiCad-based schematic and board i…
Cua AI tested seven models on 25 KiCad circuit-design tasks in its June evaluation, and the best-performing model completed only six of the 25 assignments despite being allowed up to 200 interaction s…
HeyPCB launched Circuit World, a browser-based library and design workspace it says contains more than 8,800 published open-hardware boards that engineers can fork, edit with AI and export for fabrica…
Abstract Machines open-sourced Synth, an Apache-2.0-licensed circuit compiler that turns text-based board designs into KiCad schematics, PCB layouts, and bills of materials, with a command-line interf…
AutoCuro detailed a KiCad AI plugin that automates printed circuit board placement and routing inside KiCad's native environment using the platform's Python scripting interface, without cloud uploads …
OpenAI's GPT-6-Astra model can lay out a printed circuit board in KiCad, build a 3D city scene in Unity, create an animated automobile transmission in FreeCAD and Blender, and draft a tax return from …
OpenAI's announcement of GPT-6 Astra, its latest model, included a demonstration of the LLM performing printed circuit board layout in KiCad, converting an electronic schematic into a manufacturable b…
Copperhead, an open-source AI engineering platform for circuit board design, launched with a free CLI and paid cloud tiers starting at $49 per user per month, aiming to reduce hardware design errors t…
Developer i2cjak released T3CAD, an agent-driven electronics workspace forked from T3 Code that integrates coding-agent conversations with KiCad PCB, schematic, Gerber, and 3D inspection, running on w…
A developer asked AI to design 12 ESP32 dev boards, but the AI suggested writing deterministic scripts instead, which the developer did. The resulting open-source project, atomic14/kicad-esp32-dev-boa…
A new open-source tool called burn2kicad converts a text netlist and component assets into a KiCad project, enabling AI agents to generate PCB designs without handling KiCad's complex file formats. Th…
Bshada released Open Schematics V2, the largest open electronic schematics dataset, containing thousands of KiCad schematic and PCB files with metadata. The dataset aims to accelerate machine learning…
Engineers tested ChatGPT and Gemini for PCB design verification on two STM32-based boards, finding that the LLMs could perform basic checks like component placement and power network analysis only whe…
Hardware engineer misoji engineer (iotengineer22) published the open-source Ghost Edge AI Sticker, a paper-thin flexible sensor node using Nordic Semiconductor's nRF54L15 SoC, on Hackster.io. The stic…
A new paper-thin, flexible AI sticker sensor node called Ghost Edge has been developed, built around the Nordic Semiconductor nRF54L15 wireless SoC. The device uses a flexible printed circuit board to…
The article argues that effective learning does not require mastering each concept sequentially before moving to the next. Instead, it advocates for a "practical" approach of exposing oneself to the e…