The week on the bench · Monday to Sunday, UTC
Week 29, 2026 · 13 to 19 July
10 entries published: 5 tools, 2 builds, 3 news. This page lists what was published; it is not a newsletter issue.
The week as a scope trace
One channel per kind, one pulse per entry at the hour it was published. Taller pulses have more points.
Tools5
All tools3 mo ago
Flamingo: prompt-first PCB CAD that Claude Code drives over MCP
Flamingo is a TypeScript PCB engine that Claude Code drives over MCP, from a plain-language prompt to a JLCPCB fab package with no schematic step. Its 34 tools pick LCSC parts, place footprints, connect nets, autoroute with Freerouting and run DRC. The README shows browser-editor screenshots and an end-to-end ESP32 test script, but no fabricated board.
Claimed3 mo ago
WisentWire demo: a remote HIL rig flashes, powers and watches a sumo robot
TatraSpace demos WisentWire, its hardware-in-the-loop test rig, on a small sumo robot. In the 4-minute video the team reserves the rig, flashes firmware, sends commands over UART and logs power, then uploads faulty firmware and the robot hits the wall. The video drives everything from the GUI; TatraSpace says its MCP server reaches the same functions.
Claimed3 mo ago
dps150: a CLI and Claude Code skill for the FNIRSI DPS-150 bench power supply
dps150 reads and controls a FNIRSI DPS-150 bench power supply over USB serial, speaking its binary protocol from a single Python file. It reads voltage, current, power and protection state, sets the output and trip points, and prints JSON for agents. It installs as a Claude Code skill. Aaron Perkins says it is tested only with the DPS-150.
Claimed3 mo ago
benchmux: flash and reset a board without stopping the serial monitor your agent reads
benchmux holds a board's USB serial or BLE link and logs its output to a file that agents and people can follow. Flash and reset commands release the port and reattach without stopping the monitor. It installs as a Claude Code skill. Aaron Perkins lists ESP32 as the only tested target, and the serial tool does not run on Windows.
Claimed3 mo ago
datasheet-to-symbol-lib: Claude builds KiCad symbols from datasheet PDFs
datasheet-to-symbol-lib has Claude read a component datasheet and build a KiCad symbol library through the kipart MCP server. It first writes each pinout, including alternate pin functions, to a JSON part description that a script checks. The README reports no errors in 245 pins across three test parts, against seven in KiCad's official symbols.
Claimed
Builds2
All builds3 mo ago
code-chan: coding-agent status and permission prompts on an M5Stack CoreS3
code-chan runs on a Stack-chan robot with an M5Stack CoreS3 and shows whether Claude Code or Codex is ready, working or waiting for permission. The user approves or rejects a prompt on its touchscreen. A local Node.js bridge sends hook events over USB serial, and the firmware checks each message before acting. README photos show three states.
Shown working3 mo ago
CODEX KEYBORED: a vibe-coded macropad taken from prompt to KiCad, firmware and live JLC quotes
CODEX KEYBORED is a parody of the Codex Micro macropad, designed through prompts alone from Fusion 360 mechanics to a six-layer KiCad board. The repository adds STM32F072 USB HID firmware, a factory test and JLC quotes captured on 17 July. The README does not name the agent, and says no fabricated board has been brought up.
Claimed
News3
All news3 mo ago
FWAuto demo: one prompt to a verified gesture model on an STM32F4 Discovery
FWAuto's 3.6-minute video runs its own firmware agent through an STM32 edge-AI job on an STM32F4DISCOVERY board. The agent checks the toolchain, integrates an existing NanoEdge AI library, and builds and flashes over ST-LINK. From 02:52 it verifies gestures on the board and writes an evidence report. Model training is outside the demo's scope.
Shown working3 mo ago
Cadence launches AuraStack, an agentic AI platform for PCB and advanced packaging design
Cadence announced the AuraStack AI Super Agent, an agentic platform in Allegro AI Studio for PCB and advanced packaging design. It coordinates domain agents from system planning through place and route, manufacturability checks and multiphysics signoff, on the same architecture as Cadence's ChipStack agent. Cadence says it will be available in 2026 and cites 2X faster time to market.
Claimed3 mo ago
Paper: coding agents write robot behavior trees from an MCP skill contract and run them on a Husarion Panther
Researchers had coding agents write robot behavior trees from a contract served by a robot-side MCP server. The contract lists the robot's skills, allowed operators and optional templates, and a gate validates each tree before it runs. The paper reports tests of Sonnet 4.6 and Gemma4:31b on 110 simulated tasks and 14 on a Husarion Panther running Nav2.
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