Unfortunately this looks like it uses some rather limited parts probably for cost reason so the switches only support +-8v at 1MHz. Even a decade ago the SOTA was over a GHz with a much wider voltage range ($$$$$$).
I’m not sure who the taget audience is. I want to impulse buy, but I’m not convinced yet that it would improve my workflow. The video shows a rats nest, but the first rule of breadboarding is to use wires that make it easy to trace. Worse, is now there’s one more layer to debug. My suspicion is that this is a tool that will be solid in a few iterations, and will eliminate many of the headaches breadboards add not mentioned in the video, namely parasitic capacitance and inductance.
I am interested in what I could do with the thing based on the last part of the video though. Being able to trivially reroute signals in realtume could open up a lot of possibilities.
It is really neat though.
I would recommend just using an "expensive" prototype board, that costs maybe $20 USD, instead of over that costs $4. There are different levels of quality with regard to the little clips that grip the wires and components.
The wires are really the least problem in experimenting with electronics.
This link will take you to that crosspoint switch demo. https://tinyurl.com/yr34sym6
https://wokwi.com/ is great for simple, digital only stuff.
https://fritzing.org/ will kind of lay out the PCB for you, but it's kind of a pain in the ass.
Wokwi and Fritzing are more "Breadboard Simulators" than real circuit simulators, but they do have their place.
It’s a cultural thing maybe, but for those of us, it’s easier to let ourselves do so than artificially act like something must either be perfect or trash.
We can just say “Oh, this is that. I like this part but not that part. Cool!” and feel like we put it all out there.
Also, I’m the guy who made this and you’re absolutely spot on. I’m constantly working on making this better and cheaper as time goes on. It’s totally open source so I hope people will write firmware to do the things they want with it and share it with others who want to do that thing as well.