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This is amazing. I'm definetly telling all the guys at my university about this. I really hope it catches and we end up having something like the "github" for us, hardware freaks.

Also, by enabling people to share design techniques, neat circuit ideas, inventive and creative use of components, this site has the potential to really "teach" people electronics, and to get the good practices out there.

Kudos!

Looks very nice, impressive features. I should look more into this, and see if you're competetive with "local" (=manufactured in Asia but through a local distributor, typically) alternatives.

Btw, a typo: the PCB validation says "too close to the boarder of the board" when it, of course, means "border".

Oops! I'll fix that ASAP. I've been coding late nights :)

We refer the orders from circuits.io to oshpark. That's why our boards are purple ;) I thing they produce the boards in the US.

I just tried out OSH Park with an existing circuit board that I had made elsewhere earlier this year. Their quality is excellent and the purple soldermask is cool. Prices are just unbelievable. My board originally cost me about $40 with shipping for two units of an approximately 1"x1" board (no silkscreen or mask) with 3 day turnaround using a vendor I've used many times before. This was the cheapest of my usual vendors.

The OSHPark boards were 3 units for $5, shipping included! The only drawback is that I had to wait about 3 weeks, but there are a lot of small boards that I don't need quick turnaround on. I'm definitely using them again!

That looks great, I love the editor. So far it works great in Firefox (the site mentions it’s only tested in Chrome).

You know what I’d love? A Codecademy for electronics. There are online courses and such but none seem to be as casual and easy to get into as sites like Codecademy and TryRuby.

Hey,

It could work in firefox. Its just that we only test it in Chrome, because we have limited resources.

We love Codeacademy and have been thinking about building such a thing on circuits.io instead of tutorials. It's a lot more fun! We will have it one of these days.

I’m very much looking forward to it! Good luck with the site.

I absolutely love the idea of this, but the editors are so frustratingly buggy I keep giving up. I've submitted several reports.

Also the user-contributed part library so far has been pretty mixed in quality. Mostly it's junk. I hope this improves over time; I'm attempting to do my part.

For anybody who likes electronics this is a blessing. Userfriendly to work with and efficient.