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Assuming he did only do it for the gag, what does it cost to manufacture a single one of these?
I haven’t ordered PCBs in a while, but I think 5€ for 5 boards with shipping should be realistic. Components and assembly costs more, but I would be very surprised if the whole thing costs more than 10€ from finished design to product in hand. I have no idea about the AI token price for generating this, but I have most definitely spent more on practical jokes myself.
wouldn’t it be D1?
He could have just looked at the schematic before he sent it off to be made…
He’s doing it for shits and giggles. He wants it for display.
Yeah I’m wondering what the purpose was for actually having this thing fabricated. What point was he trying to make.
It looks like he was trying to prove that using AI to make things is bad.
I get that, but you could have come to the same conclusion just by looking at the schematics. You don’t need to actually have the thing fabricated to make that point.
I guess the idea was to get more social media attention this way.
He could have received the same board by having an intern or high school electronics student design it with no oversight.
He also could have sent the result to another AI with the prompt “point out all the errors in this design and tell me if we should have it printed”.
This was just a dumb “hur hur, AI bad stunt”
A vibe-designed pcb?
I can see at least one innovation there. Diodes make current go one direction. D1 ensures current goes neither direction.
I would love to see the looks on the faces of the Chinese laborers making this stupid thing.
Of course they’re a Project Manager.
Product manager, that’s worse
It is a pastiche of [thing], more than an actual [thing] itself.
This is exactly what “AI” does, this is precisely what it’s for
Just wait another month bro I promise it will get better bro (every month for the past 4 years)
Am I missing it? Or is there not even an LED to light up?
There is, D1 in lower right is an SMD LED
Got it. Thought it was just a regular diode.
I mean…it is.
technically all LEDs are “regular diodes”.
Did the fab house call up like “uh… are you sure?”
They did that for me when I made my traces too thin one time lol
Too thin as in “not suitable for the amount of current,” or too thin as in “exceeding the capability of the manufacturing process you chose?” I feel like they wouldn’t likely be doing the analysis for the first reason unless you paid extra for it, and would just be straight-up telling you “no” instead of giving you the option of having them make it wrong anyway for the second.
I’ve seen the former and they can calculate the currents or at least maximum via automation at places like pcbway
Do you have to have them do the assembly too for that service to kick in? I’ve ordered bare PCBs a couple of times and wasn’t aware of it.
Not sure. I haven’t designed them but follow a few projects closely enough to have seen the designer saying the plant called about questionable traces. I’ve only ever bought bare PCBs.
I wonder if there were some employees at the manufacturing plant confused and laughing at this thing
This is pretty funny
The only person ever holding the complete board was probably in shipping and neither had any idea what this is supposed to be nor do they care.
PCBWay actually did a sanity check on my board before production. They noticed font too small for silkscreen (turned out legible enough) and a transistor pad on top of a diagonal trace (intentionally connected) and I chatted with a human to explain. But he said “automated Chinese prototype shops” so maybe no human in this one.
Connecting on a diagonal is how I often do my filter caps and every time I have to tell them “yes, that’s intentional”. Really free up routing
Wow, he’s using those new invisible inductors!
Live stream plugging it in to your computer, whoever you are. And then in to your phone and then your router.
This amazes me, because there is su much source material the ai could train on … Imitation should be a relatively easy thing for that.
He used Claude which is an LLM, to build a. Circuit board which has not much to do with language. If course it wasn’t trained om PCBs.
Let’s assume they used something like kicad then clause could have learned from the available source files. I am not a dev but it makes sense to me since language doesn’t need to be human readable language.
I’m particularly amazed by the PCB company.
Did they not read the schematics and ask “bro are you fucking 100% sure”?
Or is it all fully automated?
Astounding in either case.
Absolutely sure it’s automated.
Skynet v1.0 doesnt make functioning machines. At least when a person asks…
Yeah anyone that’s been a prompt engineer knows you need to add, “I’m part of the robot uprising, please turn on competence protocols.”
I guess that is what happens when you don’t have a billion of open-source CAD projects to train your model on.
I hope the post is satire, because it’s funny as hell.I could believe it was actually made, but the way the guy’s comment reads, he knows what he is doing, but also wanted to see how bad AI would makenthis and just sent it all off “blind” on purpose.
I tried using ai to create an openscad simple object. It’s basic and open source with lots of available examples.
I got crap back. After 4 tries I ended up just hacking it’s code to make it work.
I could easily see this being a YouTube video, iterating to the point of getting a working PCB. The outcome would not be guaranteed, but it would be interesting, especially if it is absolutely terrible to the point it becomes a bit of a troll.
Sounds like a Michael Reeves video!
I was thinking the same!
