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Hey HN,<p>We wanted to see if we could build an AI agent that actually designs real, manufacturable PCBs from natural language, rather than just spitting out text.<p>LLMs are great at logic but terrible at spatial reasoning. So we decoupled them: we use an LLM (OpenAI&#x2F;Claude&#x2F;Local) to extract a component manifest and run an IPC-rules check (the &quot;Critic&quot;), and then we pass that to a custom Native Python Engine we wrote from scratch.<p>The Python engine uses a Force-Directed Graph simulation. Components repel each other, but electrical nets act as Hooke&#x27;s Law springs, pulling related components together. Then it routes the traces using a net-aware shortest-path algorithm with 45-degree chamfers and multi-layer vias.<p>The result is a .kicad_pcb file that you can download directly from our React UI (rendered with KiCanvas) and open in KiCad.<p>We&#x27;ve made it totally open source. You can run it locally with a single docker-compose up command.<p>Repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Paramveersingh-S&#x2F;CircuitPilot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Paramveersingh-S&#x2F;CircuitPilot</a> We&#x27;d love your feedback on the routing engine!

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/22 22:55:08