Wow, this is awesome! It's one of those thoughts that everyone has- so much of making a PCB is totally menial and/or institutional, like part selection and sup

Wow, this is awesome! It's one of those thoughts that everyone has- so much of making a PCB is totally menial and/or institutional, like part selection and supporting circuitry. Death by a thousand cuts, but many small problems (like placement or autorouting) are actually quite hard. Taken together it's an intimidating task. This is the next big leap in design for software, electrical, and mechanical things: semantic descriptions directly to solutions. Prototyping is an excellent application. Whats your support roadmap look like? Add more chips so you can continue making small widgets cheaply? Any plans to get into higher-risk design work? If you can reliably deliver high frequency/radio designs near FCC limits, that frees up a lot of RF engineers. For anyone who doesn't know, the cost to navigate FCC regulations is huge, and testing is worse (10k tests with months of wait, worst case). Probably even more people would be interested in high power designs, given the surging popularity of lithium personal transport and vehicles. Mains voltage/mixed signal designs would also be huge, but that's a whole other kettle of bears. I'm sure you've got internal metrics tracking what you all spend the most time doing and where you're bottlenecking. Even past the huge tasks of advanced engineering there are opportunities to integrate with 3d printing, automated enclosure or laser-cut design. I suspect/hope at some point in the future you guys will be hiring a LOT of people! I'd love more examples, even on the front page. As long as they're relatively dense, readable and well-laid they'll inspire a lot of trust in engineers. Also, I think test fixturing is a strong asset and you guys should feature it more heavily! I'm not sure how you guys do it, but I'd love to see real examples. It might be the best suited automation of the things you guys do. Designing a comprehensive test fixture can take almost as long as designing the actual part, but with the basic functionality defined you could generate test routines, circuits, firmware, and jigs automatically. And my favorite kind of test jig looks like this[1], so gerbers are all I need to be happy. [1]: https://i.imgur.com/RA2m4Pn.jpg https://i.imgur.com/RA2m4Pn.jpg I prefer clips to sliding holders like that, but I couldn't find a picture for reference. I like to put a few pads around the corners, then solder a small tab to use as a clip so the PCP only has to be held down on one side. Ideally I'd have a detent on the other side but I've never had a long enough test routine to warrant figuring it out.