Show HN: Copperhead – Hardware as Fast as Software

Show HN: Copperhead – Hardware as Fast as Software. Copperhead is an open-source AI engineering platform that helps hardware teams design, verify and ship circuit boards.

What happened

NewHardware as fast as softwareCursor for circuit boards. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The GuardianReviewPixel 11 review: Google sets the bar for standard flagship phonesLonger battery life, faster chip, actually useful AI tools and better cameras keep quality Android ahead of competitionGoogle’s Pixel 11 continues to set the standard for what you should expect from the base model of a flagship phone with class-leading cameras, long software support and almost all the bells and whistles of its most expensive phones.

As with previous Pixels, it is a showcase for some of Google’s most advanced AI systems, many of which run on-device, making them fast. Photograph: NintendoInterview‘Ruin and decay bring a chance of rebirth’: Hidetaka Miyazaki on uniting players in a damaged worldKirk McKeandAs FromSoftware’s new multiplayer game The Duskbloods nears release, the legendary game director behind Dark Souls talks connection, pessimism and of course, feetSince 2009’s Demon’s Souls, Japanese video game director Hidetaka Miyazaki has shown the world a different way to think about game design.

Start buildingRead the docs$ npm i -g copperheadReplaycopperhead v0. 4~/hardware/open-key ❯ $ add a USB-C power input to the key ▸ read_file docs/POWER. md (48 lines) ▸ list_nets 41 nets, no VBUS, no CC1/CC2 ▸ validate_change add-usb-c-power valid, edit tools unlocked ✓ propose: add-usb-c-power validated, edit tools unlocked ▸ edit_file hardware/open-key. kicad_sch: USB-C receptacle, 2x 5. You write the brief. copperhead runs the stages in order, each one its own agent run.

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Read the long version, one stage at a timePricingPay to not run it yourself. copperhead is open core. Runs locally, never meteredCommunity supportMost popularCloud$49per user / monthFree for open hardware reposHosted runs on private repos, with a web viewer. A hardware design spreads one decision across a schematic, a bill of materials, a power budget and several documents, and nothing breaks when they fall out of sync. Point it at a KiCad repository, run copperhead init and start asking for changes.

It can also run the full pipeline from a written brief with copperhead create, but iterating on real designs is what it is best at. 9 more questionsStart buildingNever ship a board your docs no longer describe. copperhead is open source and free to use. Install once, describe the board you want in a short brief. md and run create. $ npm i -g copperhead $ export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY= $ copperhead create –brief brief. md brief. md# Pocket Bluetooth speaker A palm-size Bluetooth speaker that plays for a day on one charge. – ESP32, Bluetooth audio (A2DP sink) – 3 W class-D amp into a 4 Ω driver – Li-Po cell, USB-C charging – Standby current budget: 100 µA

The in-screen fingerprint scanner is fast and accurate, while the camera-based face recognition works well during the day and is secure enough for use with banking apps, unlike similar systems on most Android rivals.

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6mm Weight: 197g Faster and more efficient Tensor G6 chipView image in fullscreenThe Pixel 11 takes less than 90 minutes to fully charge using a 30W or greater power adaptor (not included) hitting 53% in half an hour. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The GuardianThe Pixel has a new generation of Google’s chip, the Tensor G6, which is up to 20% faster in tests. The software is slick, nicely animated and well optimised, with plenty of colourful customisation if you want it.

It makes trying to dictate a rushed messaged while hustling for public transport a lot easier, although it doesn’t show your text until after you hit the stop button, unlike most other dictation tools. It offers, yet again, a very high-quality experience, great triple camera, long software support and very good battery life. It won’t win any raw performance awards, so those looking for a gaming phone should look elsewhere, but it feels fast and responsive in daily use.

Pros: seven years of software updates, great camera with 5x telephoto, great screen, impressive local AI features, Qi2. 2 wireless charging and magnetic accessory support, long battery life, good size, fast fingerprint and face recognition, 256GB starting storage.

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Miyazaki is now 51 and has been FromSoftware’s president since 2014, elevated from game designer to CEO after the success of the Souls series. Photograph: Stuart Wilson/Bafta/Getty Images for BaftaFromSoftware’s in-game universes are filled with clues – enemies, places and scraps of information from item descriptions paint a vague image of the world, and the player fills the blank space. If the very ground beneath your feet is unreliable, that can shape your outlook on life, a concept explored extensively in Japanese literature and entertainment, recently on the hit television show Shōgun.

They’re reborn in different forms, to explore fresh ideas, places and perspectives while still playing, feeling and sounding like a FromSoftware game. “There’s no intentional FromSoftware [mantra] – ‘this is the way we make our games’ – because if you start to do that it becomes stale and conservative, and you start having to adhere to a set of rules and philosophies, and it just doesn’t become interesting, you can’t make anything that’s as fun,” Miyazaki says.

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