Two lads from Ghent University in Belgium, Karel Bruneel and Benjamin Schrauwen, got tired of the traditional tools used to build electronics manufacturing. Rather than rage silently at their breadboards, the created Circuits.io, a website that lets you create circuits in Chrome and view the rendered PCB.
Written in JavaScript and Rails, it’s basically a drag-and-drop interface for electronics. I’m no Enrico Fermi and know nothing about PCB manufacturing beyond a general understanding that electricity hurts when you touch it, but it seems like a very cool project and a great demonstration of the power of browser-based apps.
Best of all, the lads are solid free-software fans who will never lock your designs.
Electronics fans: would this site be helpful? Maybe tell the lads what they can do to make it better?
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