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built_with_fluxon Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design

flux.ai founder here

Agree with OP that the raw models aren't that useful for schematic/pcb design.

It's why we build flux from the ground up to provide the models with the right context. The models are great moderators but poor sources of great knowledge.

Here are some great use cases:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdH075ClrYk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0CHG_fPxzw&t=276s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJOzVf0o7o&t=2s

and here a great example of levering AI to go from idea to full design https://x.com/BuildWithFlux/status/1804219703264706578

built_with_fluxon ChatGPT for Hardware Design

Here is nice demo video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aCN92kOxTU

built_with_fluxon Hackster.io deep dive with flux.ai team

Flux founder here...happy to answer any questions

built_with_fluxon New Collaborative PCB Design Tool Launch

Founder here

Very excited to hit this milestones!

Hit me with your questions & feedback

built_with_fluxon A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003

flux founder here

thanks for the plug!

We are working on making our schematic editor so good...you'll never go back to paper :)

built_with_fluxon Brave browser now blocks cookie banners

I think i finally found a reason to switch browsers

by chrome, hi brave!

built_with_fluxon Use.GPU

If anyone is looking for something more production ready (that uses webGL), I highly recommend https://github.com/pmndrs/react-three-fiber

we use it to built https://flux.ai

built_with_fluxon Fritzing is an open-source electronic design tool

Depends on your definition of "standalone"

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.

built_with_fluxon Fritzing is an open-source electronic design tool

Thanks for the love everyone!

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

built_with_fluxon Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation

Shameless plug: We are building this over at flux.ai

its early days but you can start playing with our beta