Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards
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Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards
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#2I used claude and gemini to edit/debug kicad schematics. And it was pretty good. What is the point of this agent?
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#3I used claude and gemini to edit/debug kicad schematics. And it was pretty good. What is the point of this agent?
Some PM realized that agents will not push back against waterfall style project planning, so now we get an agent for all possible versions of waterfall projects.
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#4I used claude and gemini to edit/debug kicad schematics. And it was pretty good. What is the point of this agent?
copperhead isn't just a wrapper around claude or gpt. it combines model intelligence with its own hardware IR, deterministic engines and continuous verification.
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#5The space is definitely heating up.
Flux.ai being the incumbent Silixon based out of the UK have been showing demos Quilter and DeepPCB for layout The recent OpenAI demo...
I went the other way and pre-designed sub circuits with a set of rules that allows simple merge assembly, unfortunately I didn't have the time or budget to continue with it, but I took the constrained approach as with hardware, things can't be 99%.
The one thing I will say, is that my experience of hardware engineers is very gatekeepy.
Any questions about the use of AI for any form of automation on forums/Reddit get shot down instantly and the OP's told 'skill issue' more or less. In my opinion, just as with software, most work is simple and should be automated, there will always be a need for the real engineering when it comes to high specification work, high volume optimisation and hardware debug (although Claude code is pretty handy at driving a Jlink)
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#6I used claude and gemini to edit/debug kicad schematics. And it was pretty good. What is the point of this agent?
Some PM realized that agents will not push back against waterfall style project planning, so now we get an agent for all possible versions of waterfall projects.
fair critique but copperhead works as a feedback loop: design, verify, revise and repeat. closer to an engineering control loop than waterfall with an agent on top :)
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#7Has anyone had experience with Copperhead vs Astra and kicad? Looking for a similar tool soon
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#8Has anyone had experience with Copperhead vs Astra and kicad? Looking for a similar tool soon
we're developing https://copperbench.org - an open-source benchmark for evaluating ai agents on real, verifiable hardware design tasks.
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#9Has anyone had experience with Copperhead vs Astra and kicad? Looking for a similar tool soon
This is what I want to know as well. I'm about to kick off a project or two.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some PM realized that agents will not push back against waterfall style project planning, so now we get an agent for all possible versions of waterfall projects.
fair critique but copperhead works as a feedback loop: design, verify, revise and repeat. closer to an engineering control loop than waterfall with an agent on top :)
When it gets to the end of the design loops, can it run simulations and tests, or is that out of scope i.e., for another product? (I didn't notice testing on a very quick peruse, but that doesn't mean I didn't simply miss it)