Yes, it's like an seeing an issue of "Space Jam" from the original treatment

"I don't know why all the other shops turned me down..."

No but it can write a tool that can.

Go on... I'm listening.

I've been struggling with this for a few years for Yoto LED icons. Design rules didn't cut it, but a pymagick workflow did, more or less.

I have abandoned the work I was doing, but if you provide the image constraints along with some examples and descriptions of those examples using the terminology of your constraints, you should get something iterable.

I got a flexpcb that validates in JLC and PCBWay DRC tools from the KiCAD MCP Server and Codex.

I have yet to order any or program it, but it was enough to make me push on with a PCB art project for ST-style guitar pickguards - no netlist, no problems.

I'm also foolishly toying with NeXTBus dev boards for the Cube. Is it cursed? Probably. https://github.com/itomato/NeXTBus-Dev-Board

Flying home today and got DHL notification that my vibe PCBs are on my porch. Now to try to program, bring up, and see if it works this weekend. $178 for 5 assembled units from PCBway to run this dumb experiment.

What did you make?

Extending this work: https://github.com/aderusha/dewalt_wtc

MEMS vibration sensor to stick to a sander or saw etc that can control power on an attached dust collector. Most of the work is focused on low power for year+ battery life and a weird idea for end user input that may or may not work out well. Got device on bench but the first time bring up is going to take some time that I'm leaving for tomorrow.

I now have Astra to review 5.6s work, no glaring errors found.

That is so cool.

I'm doing weird stuff with robotics, llms and obsolete languages, your project seems a lot more practical :)

We're all out here just scratchin at our own itches brother :D

In case you run across this, here's how it works: https://youtu.be/1wn-YWItuSI

I've gone through this same workflow and had success all the way through DRC ruleset passing with JLCPCB-based settings, ordering, fab, and use. Board was ordered with PCBA (they did assembly of the stock components) and I did SMD for just the oddball module/ICs they don't stock. Works exactly to design.

My boards are for hobby use and are ridiculously simple though compared to anything professional (breakout boards for specific components in FPV drone video transmission subsystems). That's probably an important detail. I think its like anything else in AI right now. It can do it 90% of the time but that 10% can be really rough and if its a task you can't do or verify yourself, you won't know the difference.

How do I subsribe to learn the result of this test. I'm very keen to try this.

Sweet, do you have the pickguard project live somewhere? I want to check it out!

npm run art

https://github.com/wjkennedy/stratopcb/tree/main

All it takes is for someone who knows how to make regular tech bend down and say "this is for me." not to dumb it down beyond recognition.

Logo was a Programming Language, not a blunt-edged primary-colored disposable plastic blinkenlight.

Snap Circuits are just ingredients - or a way to develop fine motor skills with something that is entertaining for a parent.

You wire them up to something else then blow their mind by programming an ESP32 to be a switch with a touchscreen.

If the parent knows electronics, that's already a pretty good predictor that the kid will learn it too. But in the absence of that, the kit itself doesn't teach much. The instructions don't really explain the circuits, they just show you how to put together colorful blocks.

If the kid lacks curiosity that’s not something a kit can fix.

“Why??!” doesn’t come in a bottle, and that’s the X factor here.

All the world has access to forks/chopsticks/spoons, but every person has a preference that might be N+1 or 0.

Does the population-indexed GPU cluster reconfigure or autoscale? What's the tipping point before population change is gamed?

It's a weird premise, if you want my opinion.

The source for all the OpenGL screensavers has been available for a while from an NT SDK.

I ported GL Pipes to run in Jira and show project data.

Any social media product will be acquired and co-opted.

Tells me how valuable they actually are.