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Copperhead launches an agentic circuit-board design tool that compiles to KiCad

Copperhead launched on Hacker News as an agentic circuit-board design tool that compiles designs to KiCad files and manufacturing outputs. The founder writes that it works on its own hardware representation instead of editing KiCad directly. The thread drew 250 points. No board made with Copperhead was shown, and assembled-board ordering is still planned.

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Launch thread only; no boards built with Copperhead were shown.

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Founder replies in the thread describe a design, verify and revise loop that runs on Copperhead's own representation and compiles to KiCad at the end. Asked about circuit simulation, the founder did not confirm it and said tool integrations are being built.

A "design house" for DFM help and assembled-board orders is in progress. The founder also linked copperbench.org, an open benchmark. The Show HN post billed the product as "Cursor for circuit boards", and the thread drew 115 comments.

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