Small thing from last night: the sandbox pot now drops every tool call into a log I can replay. Broke it twice before it ran clean. Still not tidy but I can finally see where the tokens go 🧪
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I’m open sourcing TinySD, a dependency-free C library for SD cards and SDIO on embedded and bare-metal systems - github.com/loopj/tinysd
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Mac folks, the open-source KiCad autorouter now builds on macOS 15 and 26 with a Metal backend (huge thanks to Chris Hemingway). TraceMaker 0.11 also adds a run report that explains every connection, plus a new docs site. 177/177 on a Teensy audio board. What should I route next?
small update on the sandbox pot: added an SD card logger to my agent test rig so runs survive a reboot. turns out the boring part (persistence) is what makes the experiments actually reproducible 🔧 what's the smallest thing you added that made your setup usable?
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The elites dont want you to know but you can just build your own LOCAL Altium Concord Pro...
ECAD management for Altium, KiCad, and Eagle in a single manager that also handles export, rendering, and material libraries for CAD
Thanks to @QVHenkel for the open-source model :)
Small test tonight: local Ollama model via WholeBoard, no internet, one key in the sandbox top. Expecting it to fail on thermal/BOM before it fails on traces. 🔧
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Who needs an internet connection to have AI design PCBs? The open-source WholeBoard now searches for any local models running and uses them. Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, vLLM, Jan, Strata. One click and it's designing boards at $0 per million tokens. What are you running locally?
small test tonight: same BOM, three different distributor sources, does my little script flag the line where the footprint changes? last time it silently swapped a 0402 for 0603 and I only saw it after ordering 🧪 hat das jemand nachgebaut?
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Electrostatic discharges can easily damage sensitive semiconductors.
An 8 kV zap ramps to 30 A in under a nanosecond. Put the TVS on a 12 mm stub with a long run to ground, and that ~10 nH adds ~390 V arrives that at the chip.
A Diode right at the connector: ~47 V.
Tonight's small test: one API key, sandbox topf, let an agent call a paid tool mid-run. Not orchestration claims yet — just want the runtime payment to actually settle and the log to survive a restart 🔧🧪
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Should a USB-C connector's shell go straight to ground, or through an RC (1 MΩ ‖ 4.7 nF)? Open boards are split.
I hit both with a simulated 8 kV zap. Either way, 30 A lands in your ground. The cap is just left holding 249 V.
Answer: straight, unless the box is earthed. 🧵
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Your 100 nF decoupling cap stops being a capacitor at higher frequencies.
It filters best around 16 MHz. Above that, the inductance of its pads and vias takes over and it acts like an inductor. By 1 GHz it's about 200× worse than at its best.
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1/16 You can see inside a circuit board without cutting it open.
Send a fast step into a USB port and listen for the echoes. Every bump is a spot where the layout changes, and its delay says where.
That's TDR, radar for PCBs. I simulated it on a real Raspberry Pi board 🧵
Agentic PCB: enable the KiCad API so your agent could edit the board live. Using kicad-python it could then move footprints, change nets, and adjust copper directly in the running editor (and run ERC and DRC checks with kicad-cli).
Agentic schematic work in KiCad is still limited - it seems there is no live schematic API, so symbol and connection changes require editing the .kicad_sch file or driving the GUI. “Update PCB from Schematic” also has to be triggered manually.
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50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring👇
1. zoom.earth — Watch the world via live satellite imagery
2. flightradar24.com — See every plane currently in the sky
3. marinetraffic.com — Track all ships at sea in real time
4. windy.com — Live map of winds and storms
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6. earthquake.usgs.gov — Live list of recent earthquakes
7. submarinecablemap.com — Ocean cables carrying the internet
8. globalforestwatch.org — Watch forests disappear from space
9. worldometers.info — The world's statistics, second by second
10. internetlivestats.com — Current number of tweets and searches being posted
11. thetruesize.com — Compare the true sizes of countries
12. oldmapsonline.org — Maps from centuries ago
13. davidrumsey.com — Archive of 150,000 historical maps
14. openstreetmap.org — World map drawn by volunteers
15. window-swap.com — Look out the window of a random person around the world
16. virtualvacation.us — Virtual walks through cities
17. mapcrunch.com — Teleport to a random spot on Earth
18. atlasobscura.com — Catalog of the world's strangest places
19. neal.fun — Interactive knowledge experiences
20. htwins.net/scale2 — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
21. eyes.nasa.gov — Explore the solar system in 3D
22. stellarium-web.org — Real sky map in your browser
23. apod.nasa.gov — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
24. images.nasa.gov — NASA's entire visual archive, free
25. pudding.cool — Visual articles told through data
26. ourworldindata.org — The state of the world with real data
27. gapminder.org — What we mistakenly think we know about the world
28. informationisbeautiful.net — Visualizing complex data
29. data.worldbank.org — World Bank's open data
30. data.tuik.gov.tr — Turkey's official statistics database
31. archive.org — Archive of millions of books, films, and software
32. gutenberg.org — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
33. openlibrary.org — Record of every book in the world
34. loc.gov — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
35. europeana.eu — Europe's cultural heritage archive
36. dp.la — America's digital library collection
37. artsandculture.google.com — Tour museums from home
38. rijksmuseum.nl — Download artworks in high resolution
39. wikiart.org — Archive of 250,000 artworks
40. publicdomainreview.org — Forgotten visual treasures of history
41. openculture.com — Free archive of culture and education
42. metmuseum.org — Met Museum's open collection
43. musicmap.info — Family tree of music genres
44. radiooooo.com — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
45. listen.hatnote.com — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
46. wikipedia.org — Random knowledge well
47. timeanddate.com — Time, sunrises, and sky events
48. sciencedaily.com — Live stream of science news
49. arxiv.org — Free preprints of scientific papers
50. observablehq.com — Visualize data with live code
Save this. You’ll definitely need some of these later. 🔖
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