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Hardware just got a little less hard. See how Flux reduces busy work, keeps your team in sync, and gives you AI superpowers.
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AI can now create components for you! 🥳‼️
Starting today, you can use our AI assistant, Flux Copilot, to create components from scratch using just a datasheet. Go end to end in minutes instead of hours or days.
See how 👇
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Today we’re releasing The Flux Manifesto... why we do what we do.
“We founded Flux to make atoms as malleable as bits, we won’t stop until you can shape the physical as easily as the digital.”
Read The Flux Manifesto here:
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🤯🚀 Launch alert! Today, we’re announcing the world’s first AI-powered hardware design assistant.
Flux Copilot is fully integrated into our design tool, meaning it understands your work, can answer complex questions, and helps you save money and avoid mistakes. 1/n
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🚨 BIG announcement! 🚨
High speed design - like USB, Ethernet, or HDMI - is a huge barrier for many, even industry veterans. Today, Flux is changing that with automatic impedance control! We’re making high speed a breeze for the novice and 100x faster for the pro
Let’s dig in
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The first hardware AI that adapts to your objectives.
Today, we're thrilled to announce Copilot Presets! Pre-configured versions of Copilot optimized for specific applications.
Use Presets to accelerate tedious tasks like BOM verification, debugging, and part recommendations.
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🥳 Flux turns 4 years old today! 🍰
We’d like to take a moment to reflect and thank all of you for your support.
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🚀Generative AI for hardware design is here.
Flux Copilot can now wire up your schematic for you and more!
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At Flux we of course love AI... and so we asked ourselves what if Copilot could sing? Enjoy!
Song made with
@suno_ai_
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🗃️ Forget about datasheets, just chat with the updated Flux Copilot!
Copilot is now more accurate because it uses datasheets to answer your questions. Get to answers faster without digging through dense technical documents.
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RIP
@autodesk
Eagle 🦅. May you fly gracefully into the sunset, old friend.
For EE's wondering what's next, it's time to switch to Flux.
🧵
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Architectural design for PCBs just became easier with AI 🧑🚀
You can now leverage Flux Copilot to rapidly generate and evaluate a wider range of architectural options setting the foundation of your project’s success.
How can you do this? 👇
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Flux for Organizations is here!
Free your team from repetitive work, bureaucracy, and software issues. Today, we are changing that by creating a virtual space for hardware innovation. No matter what you’re building, your team’s workflow will improve. Wondering how? 👇
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The world’s premier part library Ultra Librarian is joining Flux to take the hard out of hardware! 🚀
We’re excited to announce our partnership with
@ULParts
to bring millions of high-quality and trustworthy components directly to the Flux ecosystem.
This partnership marks a
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AI shortcuts for PCB design are now at your fingertips!
Copilot shortcuts are now integrated into your workflow. Save time with quick actions, reduce risk by getting more frequent AI reviews, and get fast explanations.
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Big news! Flux is opening up to everyone! Read more in the exclusive article from
@AllAboutCircuit
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AI Design Reviews are here! ✏️🎉
Manual design reviews can be time-consuming and tedious, taking up to 30% of a hardware project’s time.
Flux Copilot gives engineers superpowers by automating design review tasks so you can reduce errors and ship robust hardware faster. 🧵
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Flux Copilot can now see! 👀
As an engineer, you rely on visual resources like block diagrams, charts, and drawings. Now, Copilot can understand these images and use them during the design process. It's a completely new way of working with the world's first AI hardware
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AI just made testing and debugging easier 👋
Test plans are critical for minimizing errors during mass production, but creating them can be time-consuming.
Today, we're introducing AI-generated test plans and workflows for more reliable hardware manufacturing! 🧵
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Research components faster with AI 🔥
Component research and evaluation can be a tedious and time-consuming phase.
Now you can work with Flux Copilot to expand the pool of options, evaluate components faster, and land on the best possible solution.
This is how it works 👇
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Original NES controller PCB! 🎮
@RobertDaleSmith
recreated the original Nintendo controller in Flux, and now you can fork it at:
The project uses the CD4021B 8-bit shift register to serialize button states for this project. This choice replicates the
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🎉 Big day at Flux! 🎉 Today, we launched the alpha version of our PCB Editor so users can create PCB designs from their schematics! Check out the recording of our launch to get more information and see a demo of the editor!
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🤩🤩🤩
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Announcing the Flux PCB Editor 🚀
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Thanks for the shoutout
@0xca0a
! We're just getting started!
there a a couple of high profile figma-like tools using three-fiber coming out, one i'm really excited about is
@BuildWithFlux
it's not so much that cgi thing but truly pushes the boundaries in how it uses the canvas to create delightful ui with purpose.
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🙏 Huge thanks to our users for helping us exit beta! We’re just getting started. Read about our big plans for the future:
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Amazing Open source project by our Hardware Engineering Intern, Collins Emasi ⚡
The "Green Dot board" is an open-source project aimed at boosting crop yields and simplifying farming tasks. 🌾
It is a low-cost, low-power board designed to work with industry-grade sensors. It
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Groove Vision AI V2 is now open source on Flux!
The Grove - Vision AI V2, powered by
@Arm
,
@AiHimax
and
@seeedstudio
is a highly efficient MCU-based smart vision module.
It leverages Arm Helium for optimized vector data processing, enhancing DSP and ML capabilities while
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Community showcase ⚡
Cycle Sentry is a board designed by Roy Taylor that utilizes a 24 GHz radar system to detect bicyclists in blind spots.
This system can process Intermediate Frequency values to detect objects. It is equipped with a frequency analyzer that enables it to
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Introducing , a better way to make electronic hardware. Join the beta! 🚀
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"Flux, a Google Doc-style Collaboration Tool for Hardware Design, Changes the Face of Remote Engineering"
Thanks for the write-up
@AllAboutCircuit
on our recent fundraise!
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🧠Copilot can simulate a circuit on its own to calculate a component's missing value!
The prompt: "Estimate the resistance value R2 of this inverting op-amp circuit considering the input is 5V and output is 10V"
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One of our users just designed a whole webcam with AI! And it shows just how easy it is to integrate it into your workflows 🧵
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PCB Business card! Made by our Flux Advocate, Mark Wu.
This is such an incredible design, you can use it and modify it as you like by scanning the QR code.
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@migueldeicaza
We're hiring engineers who are fans of
#reactjs
#threejs
#webgl
and
#typescript
and want to bring electrical engineering & simulation to the browser!
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Our Hardware Engineering Intern, Jeffrey Lam, created and added a few Adafruit parts to the Flux library 🍇
This shows the power of collaboration, now you can go into one of your projects, drag and drop any of these parts to fork them, and modify them as you like.
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This is why we created Flux 🚀
A Flux user created a PCB, solving a big problem for his business, all without any prior knowledge of how to design and manufacture a board.
Gerald runs a vending machine business in the Philippines called Vendo King Manila. He's a software
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Amazing work deserves to look amazing.
We're so excited to share an upgrade to the 3D viewer that makes creating photorealistic PCB renders accessible to anyone! 🪄 This makes it easy for you to showcase your work in a way that is beautiful and fully captures every trace and
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Here's a cool use case for Copilot that a user found:
What's a reasonable solar panel size if I want to charge a 2Ah battery during 1 average day in San Francisco? 1/3
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Remember The Green Dot Board? 🌱 (You can still fork it: )
We finally got our hands on it and couldn’t wait to show it to you!
The “Green Dot Board” is an open-source project aimed at boosting crop yields and simplifying farming tasks. Designed by our
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We're excited to announce $12M in funding to help take the hard out of hardware! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Btw we're hiring...
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Never start from scratch again: Introducing the New Project Launcher
Your team is burning time and money every time a new project begins. Why? Because you’re starting from scratch and it’s difficult to follow every nitty-gritty industry standard.
At Flux, we’re changing that.
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If you're starting a new project and want to make sure your PCB stackup is up to professional standards, We got you! 🛠️
You can find a variety of design templates in our library from different manufacturers, like
@seeedstudio
,
@JLCPCB
,
@oshpark
,
@AislerHQ
, and
@PCBWayOfficial
.
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We made Flux so intuitive to use that even beginners can start making their own boards!
This is Rodrigo Jeske's first PCB ever! The project is to create access control using an esp32 and an RFID reader, and although it's still a work in progress, it is amazing to see what you
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Our EE Collins Emasi Deployed an Arduino-based IoT node prototype in the field and quickly realized a huge oversight.
Although the Arduino Uno R3 is a popular and versatile development board, it is tailored for development rather than efficiency, especially in terms of power
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Learn how to design your own AI Pin with this hands-on tutorial using Flux Copilot! ⚡
In this video, we walk through a real-world ESP32 based AI pin project, showcasing the time-saving pESP32-basedotentials.
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Click “Take action”, and it's done.
Copilot is doing a lot behind the scenes 🎬; It's like having a partner that chooses the best route and instantly connects your schematic when you ask.
This is how it looks.
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Join us at
@ReactSummit
'23 with the amazing Giulio Zausa tomorrow at 7:45 PDT!
We're going to be talking about the challenges you may encounter when scaling applications and how to overcome them.
Add it to your calendar!
#scaling
#react
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Thanks to everyone who was able to join us for Coworking & Circuits today at the Flux Barcade! Make sure you sign up for the newsletter to hear about the next one.
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Thanks to everyone who came out yesterday to the
#SFHardwareMeetup
🌁 hosted by
@particle
! So much fun to meet this many engineers passionate about new hardware.
Also, a big shoutout to
@AaronMNathan
and
@ravihkurani
for their inspiring founder stories.
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Arduino-Based Matter Projects are now in Flux! 🚀
If you’re a lover of smart home devices, you’re likely buzzing over Arduino’s recent collaboration with Silicon Labs.
We’re excited to support the Matter community by bringing new Matter-compatible
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Being a good hardware design freelancer requires much more than being good at PCB design. In this session, our guest Kerry will share the top soft skills you'll need to up your game.
Join us this Friday at 12pm Pacific!
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🤝 It’s the beginning of something beautiful. This is the first Flux board manufactured with
@AislerHQ
!
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Community showcase! 🌍
Riley Porter pushed Flux to the limit, and was by far the most active member of 2023. He helped us improve Flux along the way.
This project is to limit the in-rush current when powering an EV motor controller. It uses an ACS70331 to measure current and an
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This project by Mwangi Alex feeds AIs with muscle information! 🦾 Meet sEMG-DAQ, a wearable device that captures and processes muscle signals for AI models.
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Want to design a 20dB amplifier? Just ask Copilot!
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Celebrating our 4th anniversary, throwback to one of our favorite stories from Flux users 🚀
Here’s the background story:
A Flux user created a PCB, solving a big problem for his business, all without any prior knowledge of how to design and manufacture a board.
Gerald is a
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💸 Say hello to AI-powered cost savings!
Staying competitive means constantly optimizing designs, but requires a keen eye, making it easy to overlook savings and taking up valuable time.
Copilot now identifies hidden savings and provides actionable insights to reduce costs. 🧵
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Eagle users will love switching to Flux. Here’s why:
🌐 Flux is browser-based, so there’s nothing to download and it works across all computers.
👋🏻 Real-time collaboration makes design reviews with your partners a breeze, no matter where they are.
🦾 Fully featured:
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Hardware teams at enterprises have been left out of the AI revolution... until now. Today, we're launching Flux Enterprise! 🚀
Flux Enterprise delivers an optimized Flux Copilot, the world’s first hardware AI assistant, along with white-glove onboarding, security and compliance
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Rafael Lozano is here for second place! 🥈🤖
He built an ESP32-S3-PLC with 8 SSRs, 8 isolated I/O, USB-C and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth. It can control DC and AC currents for homes and small industries. Versatility to the next level.
Check out the project:
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We sat down with our friends over at
@AllAboutCircuit
to take an in-depth look at the new Flux Copilot
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We can't wait to show you everything that we've been working on, stay tuned!
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Browser-based, AI-Assisted Hardware Design Tool.
A better way to design PCBs.
Thanks for the review of Copilot
@farbood
. The team at
@aidailypod
nailed it!
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8 New AI workflow shortcuts that make your PCB design even faster! 🚀
Simply right-click on the canvas to reveal Copilot shortcuts and instantly:
💰 Consolidate passive components
🛡️ Generate an FMEA Report
📊 Create a block diagram
⚖️ Compare components
📌 List IC Pin Names &
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👾 Love this SNES controller port Arduino Nano Shield by
@RobertDaleSmith
!
This shield comes fully equipped to support all types of SNES accessory inputs, like controllers, mice, and multitaps.
Give the project some stars or fork your own here:
If you love WipeOut then you gotta try BallisticNG!
Having some fun today with the SNES to Arduino shield I built with
@BuildWithFlux
SNES controller or mouse will appear as standard HID mouse or gamepad. Now it just needs multitap support for simulating 4 controllers at once.
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Pricing from Arrow is now live on Flux 🎉
We're excited to share our newest addition to the distributor list! 🙌 Now you can access Arrow’s real-time pricing, availability, and get updated on changes for thousands of components without leaving Flux.
Arrow is the newest
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If you're still creating components manually, you should stop, AI can do it for you.
With AI-powered component creation, you can quickly respond to requests, eliminate your backlog, and spend less time on manual, tedious work, all while reducing the risk of errors.
⌛ Copilot
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News!
@AislerHQ
is getting on board with Flux!
These templates & stackups will be great for our community!
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We just launched ChatGPT for Hardware on
@ProductHunt
! 🚀
Visit our product page and give us an upvote!
Thanks for your support!
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Ditch the datasheet!
"Today, Flux announced a new feature to its Copilot tool, which it believes will be a game changer for EEs: The ability to more accurately and reliably read datasheets"
Read the full article:
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You don't need to spend hours researching for part replacements, Copilot does it for you in 1 click 🧑🚀
Learn more:
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It's been an amazing year of building Flux. We're incredibly thankful for our users and everyone in our community who's helped bring us to where we are and will help take us to where we're going. We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Time for leftovers!
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Copilot coming in clutch. It can let you know how to accurately measure a battery's voltage while it is in use and depleting simultaneously 🤯
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Watch
@CorneliusWrites
design a tiny
@Raspberry_Pi
board using Flux.
Link to
@CorneliusWrites
's youtube video on the Overshoot channel:
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Our Featured Projects page searches across various types of public projects that you can view, clone or fork. Find templates for your next
#arduino
#esp32
#raspberrypi
#stm32
#teensy
or related - and multi-layer stackups for
#jlcpcb
and
#oshpark
#opensourcehardware
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Create your Organization and keep everything in one place!
@particle
has some great reference designs and projects you can use.
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Reasons why PCB Design will be easier in 2023 with Flux. A thread 🧵
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This is BRAVE: A Power Management Board 🔥
When deploying IoT sensor nodes in remote locations for extended periods, efficient power management is crucial to the design. This particular design is the perfect fit for such applications and includes the following features:
🌞 6V -
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Juan David's Environmental Exposure Risk Meter is a Flux community classic! This solar-powered ESP32 device tracks CO2 & UV levels in real time. 🌱
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Kerry Chayka, who worked on the iPhone motherboard for 7 years, shares the stellar difference of designing in Flux across 10 years of experience.
ICYMI: Hear more of
@mikebuetow
's
#PCBChat
x Flux Podcast here
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Come and watch Mark Wu, our Flux Advocate, build and test an LED Array live!
Join us now!
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📣Announcing: Arduino Shield Competition!
Build an awesome Arduino shield, Raspberry Pi HAT, or Adafruit wing in Flux by Dec 31st for a chance to win over $2,250 in prizes!
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An incredible breakout board for robotics & wearables applications to add to your next project 🤖
The MPU-6050 6 DOF Sensor, is one of the world’s most popular 6-axis MotionTracking device designed for the low power, low cost, and high-performance requirements of smartphones,
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How often have you spent time researching datasheets to manually draw 40 routes only to find that you made a mistake?
Introducing Automatic Wiring! 🚀 Now, Flux leverages machine learning to help you connect parts automatically using the hot-key CTRL+S (⌘+S on Mac).
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Hardware teams are getting increased efficiency by using Flux, and your team can do too ⚙️
Our AI Flux Copilot assists in the most tedious tasks, freeing up your organization's time for creative problem-solving.
Get a personalized demo:
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Don't let your reference designs get forgotten 📎
With your own Organization profile in Flux, your reference designs, projects, and parts can be seen and used by our growing user base of thousands of Electronic Engineers.
Make your organization's page:
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🧑💻 Step 4: Edit in the Browser
Flux is a browser-based, end-to-end PCB design tool, so it’s easy to make a change to everything from the footprint and 3D model to the symbol and properties. You can use rules to make cascading changes and constrain part properties.
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New wallpaper collection 🖼️
These new Flux wallpapers are inspired by PCB design and electrical engineers. They mix technology and flora, with plants that have PCB boards as leaves. 🌿 The wallpapers capture invention and creativity. They are bright and futuristic, but also dark
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Flux just got easier to use with a toolbar that provides instant access to the most relevant rules for each object. Edit instantly and keep building!
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Meet the XIAO ESP32S3 Sense by
@seeedstudio
🌿 A tiny but mighty dev board for embedded ML, voice, and vision AI, with:
📶 Wi-Fi and BLE
🧠 8MB PSRAM + 8MB FLASH + SD slot
🔋 Dual-core CPU + battery charging
🔌 I/O pins, including touch-sensitive GPIOs
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Copilot just leveled up: Introducing Code Interpreter for Hardware Analysis! 🧑💻
Now, Copilot can generate and run Python scripts directly in your chat, creating faster ways to work:
🤖 Automate complex calculations and analysis
📊 Create custom visualizations and reports
💡 Get
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Copilot can show you the pins that are not in use and explain their function in different situations.
#ai
#pcbdesign
#electricalengineering
#learnelectronics
#circuitdesign
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Want to learn how to create your own Arduino Shield? Join us this Friday at 10:00 am PDT!
We'll show you how to get started with templates and modules, modify them to suit your needs, and create a complete design in minutes.
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Never Worry About Stackups Again: Introducing the Stackup Editor
We were tired of doing all the hard design work only for PCBs to fail because of errors in the stackup, so we changed the process. Today, we’re launching our Stackup Editor: a new and improved way to select your
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The details matter when you're drawing a schematic. We know it and you know it too ⏳
We’re excited to announce some updates to the schematic editor that make creating beautiful schematics buttery smooth.
🔌 Adjusting Wires is easier. Drag individual wire portions to route
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