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Sooner or later, there's no avoiding it. You design your own PCB for the 8-bit project, after 863 others have already designed their own PCB, released it for free, and fully documented it using KiCad. Because... just because. ¯\(ツ)/¯

Then you send the whole thing off to PCBWay, wait a few weeks, burn all your fingers soldering the through-hole components, finally hook up a power source, and then TADAAAAAAAA:

Nothing.

Sounds familiar? 😋 Especially delightful when you didn't just order one PCB for prototyping... but enough about that.

What if you could get help with your PCB design from an AI like ChatGPT? What if it could assist you with component selection, wiring, and testing right off the bat? Sounds like: currently not possible, but as of a few days ago, it's the exact opposite.

Say Hello to flux.ai.

The team behind flux.ai, tweeting as @BuildWithFlux, has done a fantastic job. Essentially, this tool is a commercial product, but the free version supports up to 10 private projects.

It's practically begging for a test drive! So... what have thousands of people already built...? 🤔