This is genuinely impressive
Thank you!
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#32This is really cool. I think a lot of people will initially dismiss your demo as ‘slop’ unless the landing page drops some of the Claude-isms (text and design) because it’s clear this is a project with passion in it, but the demo page and landing page both look like something Claude might’ve made with a single prompt.
You're wrong! It was two prompts! Jokes aside, you're right. I wanted to have something up quickly. Before the real launch ( and not just this demo ) I'll write one by hand, I'm against AI written copy / blogposts, just could not find the headspace to focus. Again, thanks for the feedback, I'll take it!
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Re: Show HN: KiCad in the Browser
#33So you can easily get it to work in the browser, but the dozens of core developers can't get it to work properly on Wayland[1]? Something smells fishy... [1] https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support...
You can run KiCad just fine on Wayland because XWayland was built for applications like these. The big issues that KiCad can't fix are encountered when running it on Wayland without compatibility tooling.
With the oldschool way KiCad was designed, I don't think they'll ever be natively compatible with Wayland, but thankfully they don't have to.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I initially found EasyEDA to be easier to use especially with auto routing. But KiCAD is definitely more powerful.
It's on the "roadmap", someday I'll take some time to take a look at the autorouting situtation. I have a few ideas.
There is apparently a Java-based plugin that does it but I did not manage to get it to work with a simple board on a fresh Mac install.