-
+ {
+ beats.map((b) => (
+
-
+
+
+ {b.tag}
+
+
{b.heading}
+ {b.body.map((p) => ( + + ))} +
+ ))
+ }
+
kicad-sch-api — and that library kept returning wrong answers.",
+ "Global labels: dropped silently. Custom library pins: empty lists. When the layer you build on returns confident nonsense, nothing downstream can be trusted. So I did the reckless thing and ripped it out.",
+ ],
+ },
+ {
+ n: "02",
+ icon: icons.engine,
+ tag: "The engine",
+ heading: "A parser that round-trips clean",
+ body: [
+ "The heart is sexp_tree — a full S-expression parser and serializer for KiCad's native format. Parse it, mutate it, write it back, byte-for-byte identical.",
+ "On top sits SchDocument: load a schematic and ask it real questions. Where is every pin. What net is this wire on. Which labels actually connect. Answers from the file itself, not a guess.",
+ ],
+ },
+ {
+ n: "03",
+ icon: icons.wire,
+ tag: "Autowire",
+ heading: "It routes around itself",
+ body: [
+ "Place the components; autowire pulls the nets for you — with real collision detection, so wires route around each other instead of bridging into shorts.",
+ "It clamps stub lengths when they would overlap, offsets labels so they don't collide, and tracks power-wire stubs as obstacles. The messy part of drawing a schematic, done carefully.",
+ ],
+ },
+ {
+ n: "04",
+ icon: icons.check,
+ tag: "It checks its own work",
+ heading: "One call, zero ambiguity",
+ body: [
+ "run_schematic_erc runs the full electrical rules check and reports back: zero errors — or exactly what's wrong, and where.",
+ "The engine grades its own homework, so the model gets a hard signal instead of a hopeful vibe.",
+ ],
+ },
+ {
+ n: "05",
+ icon: icons.zap,
+ tag: "The proof",
+ heading: "It drew Timbre",
+ body: [
+ "It generated the phase-1 bench schematic for Timbre, a Cypress PSoC-based synthesizer. Zero ERC errors.",
+ "A language model, placing parts and pulling nets, for real hardware headed to a bench. That's the whole point.",
+ ],
+ },
+];
+---
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ Lightning talk · 90 seconds
++ I ripped out the library that kept lying to me and built an engine + that tells the truth. +
+ ++ “Replaced by an engine that just tells the truth.” ++ +