u/Mart2d2

I'm not talking about show / stage material, but more great tricks to have in pockets or backpack for when you want to pull out a series of tricks for kids. I guess more closeup. Would love suggestions on routines. I've got cards on me at all times for a kid-friendly silly routine. I like to keep a magic coloring book gimmick on hand. I also find rope tricks go over well and keep them laughing if dont with lots of playful confusion about what happened to the rope. Would love other suggestions.

Wondering if anybody else is running across this? On my Mac, when the Eufymake app is running, it's constantly eating around 180% of on CPU and 100% of the other CPU, chewing through my battery. Probably just a quick bug to fix so I filed a support ticket, but wondering if there's user error involved too :)

I'd love to hear what others are doing. I'm a heavy vibe coder in software land, but haven't tried it building a PCB yet, and now I have a project on my plate. I've not added any plugins or anything yet - just pointed Claude (VSCode + Copilot) at my directory with my kicad files in it.

One clunky thing is I dont see a good way to have the schematic update after Claude makes a change. I have to manually revert. Kinda awkward but ok. Just have to be careful.

I started this project by telling Claude all its goals. Claude helped me choose several components that are choices I did like very much. It kept in mind my power, $$, and space constraints, and even pushed back on my suggestions appropriately.

It was a little difficult, but I got it to put the parts into the schematic. It had chosen the correct symbol and footprint for all components, which was nice for saving me some time.

I tried to get it to do some wiring, but it wouldn't. It gave me suggested wiring, which I followed manually. I then asked it to verify my wiring matched it's suggestions, and it correctly identified that the wiring was good. Buuut, it hadn't wired my boost converter correctly (having put the inductor on the output side rather than the power input side).

I told it I wanted different values for an inductor and two capacitors and that I wanted the parts available from JLCPCB (true for all my parts) and it found parts for those values and put them in my schematic.

It spit out a BOM CSV that looks good.

All my parts for this project are off the shelf, so I haven't had a chance to help me with something like making a footprint, but I'm guessing that's still a further out dream.

Verdict so far: Definitely adding it as a buddy especially around part selection, but still pretty clunky