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Notes from the copper.
What we have learned pointing an agent at real hardware files: how it works, where it breaks and why it is fenced in the way it is. Every claim here is one you can go and check in the repo.
Hardware as fast as software
Two boards for Kyra, glasses and a ring, taken from a two-sentence public roadmap to part selection in a day. A test of the claim that hardware design can move as fast as software, with every stage a commit.
Hardware as fast as software
Two boards for Kyra, glasses and a ring, taken from a two-sentence public roadmap to part selection in a day. A test of the claim that hardware design can move as fast as software, with every stage a commit.
Improving TTFB with Anycast
We put an anycast edge in front of a single-region Azure app. TTFB fell sharply across Europe and Asia, but two South American probes became slower.
From brief.md to gerbers
One command turns a markdown brief into gerbers, firmware and docs. A walk through the eight stages and what each one has to prove before the next starts.
copperhead: Cursor for circuit boards
copperhead is an AI agent that designs, documents and validates real PCBs from a prompt, working on your existing KiCad repository. Built and proven on a shipping open source board.
Frequently asked questions
What it costs, what it refuses to do, whether it replaces an engineer, and what happens to your design files.
Spec-gated in, verification-gated out
The two invariants that make an agent safe to point at real design files, and the six-step loop that runs between them.
Drift is a build failure
Hardware design holds dozens of cross-cutting constraints at once, and every change touches artifacts that quietly fall out of sync. That drift is what ships to fabrication.
Meet copperhead
An open source AI agent that designs, documents and verifies real PCBs from a prompt, working on your KiCad files inside your own repository.
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