It’s a modern take on electronics design with slick UX
Comes with a free tier as well as paid
Software engineers here are gonna love that components in flux are fully programmable from schematic/PCB all the way down to simulator models
And it's browser based. Opening any of the examples on the main page with firefox lifted up my PC like a hovercraft by the way the fans started to spin, with several seconds delay for any interaction (on a PC that's capable of running Altium and Orcad).
PS: I love the animation on the main page and how the mechanical engineer has no idea on what's going on!
Yeah, performance is on our radar now that the core product is mature enough to manufacture boards. Our goal is to get 200 component projects to work well on a regular 2017 generation machine and get to 1000 by end of year.
About vendor lock-in: we def don't want to lock anyone in...so data portability is big focus and we have import/export support for kicad and other formats like STL or Collada already. Planning to add support for Netlists, Altium, Eagle, etc too as well as a REST API.
You can also export your project as a json file today
Ultimately the power of flux is connectedness the collaboration that enables but we do plan to ship a standalone app that's unbundled from your web browser in parallel to the web version.
We also have plans to offer some amount of offline capabilities so solve for use cases such as being on a airplane.
Dev1: It works on my machine!
Dev2: Great, we'll ship your machine!
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