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🧱 Organizational leverage
In a recent conversation, Yuval commented on how organizations are using AI: more and more people will become “builders” - and that will create a proliferation of small apps/skills - where organizational leverage will become an issue. its …
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What motivates innovators?
(this following is some lightly edited research I did in Perplexity) Vint Cerf co-designed TCP/IP with Bob Kahn in the 1970s, creating the protocols that let separate networks join into the Internet. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide …
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🧩 From PCB change to mechanical model in one script
KiCad and FreeCAD both expose command-line and Python interfaces, so a PCB change can flow into the mechanical assembly with a single script.
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🔌 GitPLM: An easy way to manage your KiCad library using CSV files in Git
GitPLM now supports the KiCad HTTP Library API for an easy connection between your part library and KiCad.
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🔩 Generating Mechanical Models with Claude Code
We recently needed a mechanical model of a USB coupler. On a whim, I suggested that the designer try using Claude Code to create it in FreeCAD from a 2D drawing - it worked! No MCP or complex setup needed. (Although there is an MCP availabl…