by andrewklofas
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- Hit this exact wall six months back building Claude Code stuff for KiCad review[1]. First pass let Claude read .kicad_sch directly via grep/read. It happily invented pin numbers that didn't exist. Rewrote it with Python analyzers that spit out JSON, now Claude just reads the JSON, problem mostly went away.
Curious how spicelib-mcp handles models that aren't in the bundled library. Do you pass the .lib path as a tool arg, or does the server own a registry?
[1] https://github.com/aklofas/kicad-happy
by iterateoften
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- Beware. I had Claude code with opus building boards and using spice simulations. It completely hallucinated the capabilities of the board and made some pretty crazy claims like I had just stumbled onto the secret hardware billion dollar project that every home needed.
None of the boards worked and I had to just do the project in codex. Opus seemed too busy congratulating itself to realize it produced gibberish.
by Scene_Cast2
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- I've found that having LLMs work with mermaid diagrams makes describing and modifying circuits less annoying.
by Archit3ch
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- Nice! Doing something similar with a Jumperless so that the model can reconfigure the circuit on the fly.
- Very cool idea closing the loop between simulation and real hardware.
Have you found the MCP-driven workflow reliable enough for repeated testing cycles, or does it still need manual verification at key steps?
- Measure with a micrometer, mark with a pencil, cut with an axe.
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