Electronics

Rickrolling with a Pharmacy cross

A playful hardware write-up: turning a pharmacy LED cross into a scrolling Rickroll display, with wiring notes and the software path.

Blog post · Hardware · Electronics · Fun · Embedded

“The Secret Life of Circuits” is hereWhy Michał Zalewski wrote a book about how circuits actually behave

lcamtuf (Michał Zalewski) announces The Secret Life of Circuits—why he wrote a hands-on electronics book focused on how real circuits behave, with notes on layout, endorsements, and who it’s for.

Blog post · Hardware · Engineering · Education · Electronics

Can AI design circuit boards yet?

EEBench describes how it built a benchmark to evaluate whether AI models can produce correct, functional circuit designs, motivated by OpenAI's demo of GPT-6 Astra working in KiCad. Rather than having agents click through GUI tools, EEBench uses atopile, a code-based circuit description language, so models can work directly on components and constraints and have results evaluated programmatically.

Blog post · AI · Circuit Design · Hardware · Benchmarks