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Re: Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware

#11
I appreciated that smoke comes out of the battery if you short it :)

Edit: I am ex EE. I will note that it's horrible using this view. It is marginally more horrible than using breadboards in reality. Schematics exist because reality tends to suck or have inconsistencies. For example TO-99 packages come in different pin orders, so 2N3904 has the opposite order to a BC547. Also breadboards tend not to have full length bus bars depending on vendors. At least though in this form it's an ideal representation though which doesn't have parasitic capacitors, inductors, dodgy contacts and no ground plane all over it.

It is good fun though :)

Re: Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware

#14
post #5

Super cool. Wonder if we can input the circuit as code.

There used to be some really good web-based SPICE interpreters but I can't find them now. This was before javascript ate everything, so you would enter the netlist, click a button, and get a GIF or the current at a specified terminal or whatever

Re: Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware

#15
post #5

Super cool. Wonder if we can input the circuit as code.

There used to be some really good web-based SPICE interpreters but I can't find them now. This was before javascript ate everything, so you would enter the netlist, click a button, and get a GIF or the current at a specified terminal or whatever

Well, SPICE is still around in its zillion forks and dialects…

AIUI the best frontend is kicad, though I never really tried that, I just wrote the text files by hand.

Re: Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware

#17
Not a fan. The standard schematic abstraction is great and actually helps us parse circuits.

Don't add unnecessary complexity just because AIs are good at vibecoding threejs demos (edit: even if this particular demo seems to predate vibecoding and was likely used for training instead of being the product of inference).

Re: Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware

#18

A more mature version of this is "CRUMB" found on steam, it costs money but it's got a lot of great features.

https://www.crumbsim.com/

Steam: 78% positive reviews out of 675. $8.99. Windows-only, though the website says “CRUMB is available for iOS and Android along side its desktop counterparts on Windows and MacOS.”

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2198800/CRUMB_Circuit_Sim...

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