Hello, GufWorks

This is GufWorks, the augmented workshop. I design and ship electronics with AI agents doing the engineering legwork: Claude Code editing KiCad schematics directly, sourcing pipelines that refuse to hallucinate part numbers, a homelab that occasionally tries to destroy itself and gets written up when it does.

The premise is simple. Big EDA vendors are selling agentic design suites at enterprise prices. I do it with free tools and a chat window, and I publish the working notes.

Two kinds of posts are coming. Build logs: how a board actually gets designed, reviewed, sourced, and manufactured when an AI holds the tools. And Bodge Wire, a series of post-mortems for the times hardware fails spectacularly — because it does, and the failures teach more than the successes.

First proper posts land shortly. There’s an RSS feed. No newsletter yet; it’s coming.