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Exploring how artificial intelligence transforms electronics development — from streamlining KiCad workflows to enabling team-scale hardware design automation.
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Part 4: The Designer Agent — Circuit Calculations With a Paper Trail
Part 4 of the Pi Extensions for Hardware Design series. How I use the designer agent to run circuit calculations, cross-reference datasheets, and write design documents with traceable references.
Part 3: The Lib Agent — Cleaning Up KiCad Libraries
Part 3 of the Pi Extensions for Hardware Design series. How I use the lib agent to process downloaded KiCad libraries: renaming, stripping metadata, quality checking, and organizing symbols, footprints, and 3D models.
Part 2: The Doc Agent — Turning PDFs into Markdown the AI Can Read
Part 2 of the Pi Extensions for Hardware Design series. How I use the doc agent to convert datasheets into structured Markdown so the designer agent can read them.
Part 1: CircuitPilot — A Multi-Agent System for Hardware Design
Part 1 of the Pi Extensions for Hardware Design series. An overview of CircuitPilot: how it's structured, and the staged workflow that keeps projects coherent.