AI-assisted electronics hardware development — streamlining workflows, extending KiCad for team-scale design.https://circuithub.org/https://circuithub.org/blog/circuitpilot-overview/https://circuithub.org/blog/circuitpilot-overview/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.Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://circuithub.org/blog/designer-agent-circuitpilot/https://circuithub.org/blog/designer-agent-circuitpilot/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.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://circuithub.org/blog/doc-agent-circuitpilot/https://circuithub.org/blog/doc-agent-circuitpilot/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.Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://circuithub.org/blog/kicad-cis-cip-workflow/https://circuithub.org/blog/kicad-cis-cip-workflow/How to leverage KiCad 9.0's SQLite database library feature to create an Orcad-style component information system with automated Digikey integration.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://circuithub.org/blog/lib-agent-circuitpilot/https://circuithub.org/blog/lib-agent-circuitpilot/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.Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://circuithub.org/blog/pdf-to-markdown-skill/https://circuithub.org/blog/pdf-to-markdown-skill/Why OCR is the wrong approach for feeding PDF datasheets and user manuals into AI coding agents, and how a PyMuPDF-based extraction pipeline delivers clean, structured Markdown output instead.Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT