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Has anyone had experience with Copperhead vs Astra and kicad? Looking for a similar tool soon
by danielmorozoff 9d ago
Has anyone had experience with Copperhead vs Astra and kicad? Looking for a similar tool soon
- animeshchouhan 9d agowe're developing https://copperbench.org https://copperbench.org - an open-source benchmark for evaluating ai agents on real, verifiable hardware design tasks.
- danielmorozoff 8d agoany idea how it stacks up against zoo / zookeeper? https://zoo.dev/research/zookeeper https://zoo.dev/research/zookeeper
- leobuskin 8d agommm, someone decided to reuse `zookeeper` name, seriously?
- TechSquidTV 9d agoThis is what I want to know as well. I'm about to kick off a project or two.
- ajnin 9d agoCopperhead directly edits the KiCad files so that is the CLI version of that Astra demo.
- animeshchouhan 9d agonot quite. copperhead operates on its own IR, which then compiles to KiCad files.
- ecesena 8d agoI do not have experience with Copperhead, but I made 2 PCBs with Claude. He made a py script that generates Kicad sources, I ended up generating all files (in particular schematics and PCB) from a shared netlist, and use Kicad cli to validate and generate gerbers. I manufactured both PCBs via PCBWay (Claude also red all the specs and configured the constraints accordingly) and both work. I'm pretty impressed, especially because I've never done a PCB myself and didn't know I could. What I was doing manually, co-working with Claude, was placing and routing (I was doing those via Kicad, then saving, then Claude was re-importing my work in his py files).
- edg5000 8d agoI recommend having the LLM write Skidl, which generates a netlist, which you import in the PCB editor, which the LLM then reviews. Routing itself I think would require code-driven routing (expressing board via layout constraints, kinda like UI constraints/CSS) which does not exist yet.