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tylergetsayyesterday at 2:15 PM5 repliesview on HN

Can I take the output of this and get a fully assembled board mailed to me? Thats my dream...


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seidleroniyesterday at 2:35 PM

It seems like this is just controlling KiCad. Assuming this produces a BOM as well, you could take the output files, send them to a board house like PCBWay or JLPCB and get the boards stuffed and shipped to you.

The board houses may have questions for you that may be difficult for you to answer, but theoretically you could answer those with AI and get fully assembled boards delivered right to your doorstep.

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ac29today at 1:53 AM

I did that with Codex+Sol alone, and made something even more complex in less time with Codex+Astra over the weekend.

Its maybe more hands on than you want it to be, but you mostly just need to supervise the work. But yes, the CAD outputs go directly to the JLCPCB ordering form, or whereever you fab

dghlsakjgyesterday at 7:13 PM

Yes.

Look at jlcpcb or other Chinese assembly houses. If you stay within their component library it is dead easy, just upload your gerber and BOM, and you can have assembled boards within a week or so. Slightly more difficult if they have to order parts for your BOM, but still not really that hard.

4b11b4yesterday at 4:55 PM

Pretty much with the JLC plugin to KiCad.

animeshchouhanyesterday at 2:33 PM

soon :)